scede

And such was the candour and integrity of succeeding ages, that a deed (as I have oft seen) to convey a whole manor, was implicite contained in some twenty lines or thereabouts; like that scede or Sytala Laconica, so much renowned of old in all contracts, which [521] Tully so earnestly commends to Atticus, Plutarch in his Lysander, Aristotle polit.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007