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.