SACRAMENTO

sacramento (sak-r<<schwa>>-men-toh), n. [Latin “by oath”] Roman law. A legal action in the

earliest form of civil procedure in which, at its commencement, each of the contending parties

deposited or gave security for a certain sum (called the sacramentum), which the loser forfeited to

the public. — Also termed legis actio sacramento. See LEGIS ACTIO. [Blacks Law 8^th]