Legal Term Dictionary

Free tenure by socage.

Free tenure by socage. Less...

A privilege, liberty, or franchise. CowelL

A privilege, liberty, or franchise. CowelL Less...

A custom of grinding corn at the lord's mill. Cowell. Bond-socome la where the tenants are bound to It Blount

A custom of grinding corn at the lord's mill. Cowell. Bond-socome la where the tenants are bound to It Blount Less...

One who has been guilty of sodomy.

One who has been guilty of sodomy. Less...

The surface, or surface-covering of the land, not including minerals beneath it or grass or plants growing upon it But in a wider (and more usual) sense, the term is equivalent to "land," and Includes all that is below, upon, or above the surface.

The surface, or surface-covering of the land, not including minerals beneath it or grass or plants growing upon it But in a wider (and more usual) sense, the term is equivalent to "land," and Includes all that is below, upon, or above the surface. Less...

In criminal law. The crime of unnatural sexual connection; so named from its prevalence in Sodom. See Genesis, xix. This term is often defined in statutes and judicial decisions as meaning "the crime against nature," the "crimen innominatum" or as carnal copulation, against the order of nature, by man with More...

In criminal law. The crime of unnatural sexual connection; so named from its prevalence in Sodom. See Genesis, xix. This term is often defined in statutes and judicial decisions as meaning "the crime against nature," the "crimen innominatum" or as carnal copulation, against the order of nature, by man with man, or, in the same unnatural manner, with woman or with a beast. See Cr. Code Ga. | 4352; Honselman v. People, 168 111. 172, 48 N. E. 304. But, strictly speaking, it should be used only as equivalent to "pederasty," that is, the sexual act as performed by a man upon tne person of another man or a boy by penetration of the anus. See Ausman v. Veal, 10 Ind. 355, 71 Am. Dec. 331. The term might also, without any great violence to its original meaning, be so extended as to cover the same act when performed in the same manner by a man upon the person of a woman. Another possible method of unilateral sexual connection, by penetration of the mouth (penem in orem alii immittere, vel p enem alii in orem recipere) is not properly called "sodomy," but "fellation." That this does not constitute sodomy within the meaning of a statute is held in Hfarvey v. State, 55 Tex. Cr. App. 199, 115 S. W. 1198; Com. v. Poindexter (Ky.) 118 S. W. 943; Lewis v. State, 36 Tex. Cr. R. 37, 35 S. W. 372, 01 Am. St Rep. 831. On the other hand bestiality is the carnal copulation of a human being with a brute, or animal of the sub-human orders, of the opposite sex. It is not identical with sodomy, nor is it a form of sodomy, though the two terms are often confused in legal writings and sometimes in statutes. See Ausman v. Veal, 10 Ind. 355, 71 Am. Dec 331. Buggery is a term rarely used In statutes, but apparently including both sodomy On the widest sense) and bestiality as above defined. See Ausman v. Veal, 10 Ind. 355, 71 Am. Dec. 331; Com. v. J., 21 Pa. Co. Ct. R. 025. Less...

Fr. Let it be;' be it BO. A term used in several Law-French phrases employed In English law, particularly as expressive of the will or assent of the sovereign in formal communications with parliament or with private suitors. -Soit baile auz commons. Let it be delivered to the commons. The More...

Fr. Let it be;' be it BO. A term used in several Law-French phrases employed In English law, particularly as expressive of the will or assent of the sovereign in formal communications with parliament or with private suitors. -Soit baile auz commons. Let it be delivered to the commons. The form of indorsement on a bill when sent to the house of commons. Dyer, 03a.-Soit baile ana seigneurs. Let it be delivered to the lords. The form of indorsement on a bill in parliament when sent to the house of lords. Hob. Ills.-Soit droit fait al partie. In English law. Let right be done to tne party. A phrase written on a petition of right, and subscribed by the king.-Soit fait comme 11 ost desire. Let it be as it is .desired. The royal assent to private acts of parliament. Less...

This term means something more than "traveling," and applies to a temporary, as contradistinguished from a permanent residence. Henry v. Ball, 1 Wheat 5, 4 L. Ed. 21.

This term means something more than "traveling," and applies to a temporary, as contradistinguished from a permanent residence. Henry v. Ball, 1 Wheat 5, 4 L. Ed. 21. Less...

The lord's rent gatherer In the soca. Cowell.

The lord's rent gatherer In the soca. Cowell. Less...

Lands and tenements which were not held by knight-service, nor by grand serjeanty, nor by petit but by simple services; being, as it were, lands enfranchised by the king or his predecessors from their ancient demesne. Their tenants were sokemans. Wharton.

Lands and tenements which were not held by knight-service, nor by grand serjeanty, nor by petit but by simple services; being, as it were, lands enfranchised by the king or his predecessors from their ancient demesne. Their tenants were sokemans. Wharton. Less...