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  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • SOCIUS
    Lat In the civil law. A partner.
  • SOCMAN
    A socager. -Free socmen. In old English law. Tenants in free socage. Glanv. lib. 3, c 7; 2 BL Comm. 79.
  • SOCMANRY
    Free tenure by socage.
  • SOCNA
    A privilege, liberty, or franchise. CowelL
  • SOCOME
    A custom of grinding corn at the lord's mill. Cowell. Bond-socome la where the tenants are bound to It Blount
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