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  • SO
    This term is sometimes the equivalent of "hence," or "therefore," and it is thus understood whenever what follows is an illustration of, or conclusion from, what has gone before. Clem v. fcftate, 33 Ind. 431.
  • SO HELP YOU GOD
    The formula, at the end of a common oath.
  • SOBRE
    Span. Above; over; upon. Ruis v. Chambers, 15 Tex. 586, 592.
  • SOBRE-JUEZES
    In Spanish law. Superior judges. Las Partidas, pt 3, tit 4, L L
  • SOBRINI AND SOBRINAE
    Lat In the civil law. The children of cousins gerinan in general.
  • SOC, SOK, OR SOKA
    In Saxon law. Jurisdiction; a power or privilege to administer justice and execute the laws; also a shire, circuit, or territory. Cowell. ,
  • SOCA
    A seigniory or lordship, enfranchised by the king, with liberty of holding a court of his socmen or socagers; i. e., his tenants.
  • 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...
  • 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.
  • SOCER
    Lat In the civil law. A wife's father a father-in-law. Calvin.
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