221. Savings And Loan

A banking and lending institution, chartered either by a state or the federal government. Savings and loans only make loans secured by real property from deposits.

222. Satisfaction Of Mortgage

A document signed by a lender acknowledging that a mortgage has been fully paid.

223. Satisfaction Of Judgment

A document signed by a judgment creditor stating that the full amount due on the judgment has been paid.

224. Sanctuary

A special criminal law option available in Medieval times to persons who had just committed a crime, allowing them to seek refuge in a church or monastery.

225. Sanction

To ratify or to approve; punish.

226. Salvage

1) to save goods. 2) payment to a person or group which saves cargo from a shipwreck.

227. Sale

Transfer of something (and title to it) in return for money.

228. Said

A reference back to a thing that was previously mentioned

229. Royalties

payments based on usage from one individual or party to another, usually based on a prescribed fee or agreement

230. Rout

A common law and public order criminal offense which has gone beyond an unlawful assembly in that some action has been taken towards either the crime intended or the disturbance of the peace.

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