SAVER DEFAULT

saver default (say-v<<schwa>>r di-fawlt). [Law French] Hist. To excuse a default. — Also

spelled saver de fault; saver defaut.

“Saver default is the same as to excuse a default. And this is properly when a man having

made default in court, comes afterwards, and alleges a good cause why he did it, as imprisonment

at the same time, or the like.” Termes de la Ley 352 (1st Am. ed. 1812). [Blacks Law 8th]