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(Safery,) Saifrie, n. [? Safer n.] Appar., compensation for saving a ship or its contents, salvage-payment. In saifrie richt. — 1622-6 Bisset II 233/22.
That quhat schip adventured on the said ground … that the said lordschip [sc. of Brittany] aucht nocht to suffer to tak any thing for the saifrie richt for thair labouris in saiffing thereof. Sa be this maner of brevis all schipis and guidis be saiffed of the richt of the said prince