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SOCAGE
Socage tenure, in England, is the holding of certain lands in consideration of certain Inferior services of husbandry to be performed by the tenant to the lord of the fee. "Socage," in its most general and extensive signification, seems to denote a tenure by any certain and determinate service. And More...

Socage tenure, in England, is the holding of certain lands in consideration of certain Inferior services of husbandry to be performed by the tenant to the lord of the fee. "Socage," in its most general and extensive signification, seems to denote a tenure by any certain and determinate service. And in this sense it is by the ancient writers constantly put in opposition to tenure by chivalry or knight-service, where the render was precarious and uncertain. Socage is of two sorts,-free socage, where the services are not only certain, but honorable; and villein socage, where the services, though certain, are of baser nature. Such as hold by the former tenure are also called In Glanvil and other authors by the name of "liberi sokemanni," or tenants in free socage. By the statute 12 Car. 2, c. 24, all the tenures by knight-service were, with one or two immaterial exceptions, converted into free and common socage. See Cowell; Bract 1. 2, c. 35; 2 Bl. Comm. 79; Fleta, lib. 3, c. 14, ? 9; Litt | 117; Glan. L 3, c 7. Less...
SOCAGER
A tenant by socage. Sooasjinm idem est qnod servitnm so-ess; et seca, idem est quod oarnoa. Co. Litt 86. Socage is the same as service of the soc; and soc ia the same thing as a plow.

A tenant by socage. Sooasjinm idem est qnod servitnm so-ess; et seca, idem est quod oarnoa. Co. Litt 86. Socage is the same as service of the soc; and soc ia the same thing as a plow. Less...
SOCER
Lat In the civil law. A wife's father a father-in-law. Calvin.

Lat In the civil law. A wife's father a father-in-law. Calvin. Less...
SOCIALISM
A scheme of government aiming at absolute equality in the distribution, of the physical means of life and enjoyment It is on the continent employed in a larger sense; not necessarily implying communism, or the entire abolition of private property, but applied to any system which requires that the land More...

A scheme of government aiming at absolute equality in the distribution, of the physical means of life and enjoyment It is on the continent employed in a larger sense; not necessarily implying communism, or the entire abolition of private property, but applied to any system which requires that the land and the instruments of production should be the property, not of individuals, but of communities or associations or of the government 1 Mill, Pol. Econ. 2*8. Less...
SOCIEDAD
In Spanish law. Partnership. Schm. Civil Law, 153, 154. -Sociedad anonlma. In Spanish and Mexican law. A business corporation. "By the corporate' name, the shareholders' names are unknown to the world; and, so far as their connection with the corporation is concerned, their own names may be said to be More...

In Spanish law. Partnership. Schm. Civil Law, 153, 154. -Sociedad anonlma. In Spanish and Mexican law. A business corporation. "By the corporate' name, the shareholders' names are unknown to the world; and, so far as their connection with the corporation is concerned, their own names may be said to be anonymous, that.is, nameless. Hence the derivation of the term 'anonymous' as applied to a body of persons associated together in the form of a company to transact any given business under a company name which does not disclose any of their own." Hall, Mex. Law, | 749. Less...
SOCIETAS
Lat In the civil law. Partnership; a partnership; the contract of partnership. Inst 3, 26. A contract by which the goods or labor of two or more are united in a common stock, for the sake of sharing in the gain. Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 2, c. 18, no. 12. More...

Lat In the civil law. Partnership; a partnership; the contract of partnership. Inst 3, 26. A contract by which the goods or labor of two or more are united in a common stock, for the sake of sharing in the gain. Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 2, c. 18, no. 12. -Soeleta* leonina. That kind of society or partnership by which the entire profits belong to some of the partners, in exclusion of the rest So called in allusion to the fable of the lion, who, having entered into partnership with other animals for the purpose of hunting, appropriated all the prey to himself. It was void. Wharton.-Sociotas navalis. A naval partnership; an association of vessels; a number of ships pursuing their voyage in company, for purposes of mutual protection. Less...
SOCIETE
Fr. In French law. Partnership. See' COMMENDAM. -Sooiete anonyme. An association where the liability of all the partners is limited. It had in England until lately no other name than that of "chartered company," meaning thereby S joint-stock company whose shareholders, by a charter from the crown, or a special More...

Fr. In French law. Partnership. See' COMMENDAM. -Sooiete anonyme. An association where the liability of all the partners is limited. It had in England until lately no other name than that of "chartered company," meaning thereby S joint-stock company whose shareholders, by a charter from the crown, or a special enactment of the legislature, stood exempted from any liability for the debts of the concern, beyond the amount of their subscriptions. 2 Mill, Pol. Econ. 485.-Sooiete en commandite. In Louisiana. A partnership formed by a contract by which one person or partnership agrees to furnish another person or partnership a certain amount either in property or money, to be employed by the person or partnership to whom it is furnished, in his or their own name or firm, on condition of receiving a share in the profits, in the proportion determined by the contract, and of being liable to losses and expenses to the amount furnished and no more. Civ. Code La. art. 2810. Less...
SOCIETY
An association or company of persons (generally not incorporated) unlted together for any mutual or common purpose. In a wider sense, the community or public; the people in general. See New York County Medical Ass'n v. New York, 32 Misc. Rep. 116, 65 N. Y. Supp. 531; Josey v. Union More...

An association or company of persons (generally not incorporated) unlted together for any mutual or common purpose. In a wider sense, the community or public; the people in general. See New York County Medical Ass'n v. New York, 32 Misc. Rep. 116, 65 N. Y. Supp. 531; Josey v. Union L. A T. Co., 106 Ga. 608, 32 S. E. 628; Gilmer v. Stone,. 120 U. S. 586, 7 Sup. Ct 689, 30 L. Ed. 734. Soeii mei socius mens sodns non est. The partner of my partner is not my partner. Dig. 50, 17, 47, 1. Less...
SOCIUS
Lat In the civil law. A partner.

Lat In the civil law. A partner. Less...
SOCMAN
A socager. -Free socmen. In old English law. Tenants in free socage. Glanv. lib. 3, c 7; 2 BL Comm. 79.

A socager. -Free socmen. In old English law. Tenants in free socage. Glanv. lib. 3, c 7; 2 BL Comm. 79. Less...

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