SCABINI
scabini (sk<<schwa>>-bI-nI). [Law Latin] Hist. Judges or the judge’s assessors in the court
held by the count; magistrates. • The term was found in a charter from the wardens of Lynn in
Norfolk, during the reign of Henry VIII. But even earlier than that, the title was used in
Charlemagne’s empire (the French equivalent being édevins) and later Germanized as Schöffen. [Blacks Law 8th]