Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law: A suit or action.
- noun The pursuit of a criminal.
- noun The feudal service of attendance at the lord's court.
- noun The witnesses brought to court by a plaintiff to prove his count or declarations. In that sense they were his followers or suit, whence the term ‘to bring suit.’
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Examples
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/3/Hence, the statute required witness -- that is, the secta -- in every case of debt where the plaintiff did not rely upon a writing.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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Inest enim ijs falsa persuasio ita vt putent vnumquemque in ea qua natus est secta posse beari, si susceptam seruauerit illibatè: ideoque probant ab opposito se esse bonos, quia, sicut dicunt, obseruant scripta legis præcepta et ceremonias sancti libri sui à Deo sibi transmissi per beatum nuncium suum Mahomet.
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Primò ergo describo vobis ritus communes omnes Idolatrarum: et postea istorum Iugurum; qui sunt quasi secta diuisa ab alijs.
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Iam restat vt de secta Saracenorum aliquid scribam vel compendiosè, secundum quòd cum ijs frequentèr, colloquendo audiui, et liber
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Iam restat vt de secta Saracenorum aliquid scribam vel compendios�, secundum qu騞 cum ijs frequent鑢, colloquendo audiui, et liber
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Prim� ergo describo vobis ritus communes omnes Idolatrarum: et postea istorum Iugurum; qui sunt quasi secta diuisa ab alijs.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Isti homines Christiani de secta Nestorianorum erant, quos etiam bello deuicit, et eorum literas acceperunt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Inest enim ijs falsa persuasio ita vt putent vnumquemque in ea qua natus est secta posse beari, si susceptam seruauerit illibat� ideoque probant ab opposito se esse bonos, quia, sicut dicunt, obseruant scripta legis pr鎐epta et ceremonias sancti libri sui � Deo sibi transmissi per beatum nuncium suum Mahomet.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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'Defit namque omnis hiatu, secta est omnis humus penitusque cavata latebris exiles suspensa vias agit'; and Sen. _N. Q._ v. 14, 1, 'N.n tota solido contextu terra in imum usque fundatur, sed multis partibus cava et caecis suspensa latebris.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Latin tongue secta signified the mode of thought, the manner of life and, in a more specific sense, designated the political party to which one had sworn allegiance, or the philosophical school whose tenents he had embraced.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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