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  • SOJOURNING
    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.
  • SOKE-REEVE
    The lord's rent gatherer In the soca. Cowell.
  • SOKEMANRIES
    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.
  • SOKEMANS
    In English law. Those who held their lands In socage. 2 Bl. Comm. 100. Sola ao per se eeneetus donationem testamentum aut transaetionem non vi-tiat. 'Old age does not alone and of itself vitiate a will or gift Van Alst v. Hunter, 5 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 148, 158.
  • SOLAR
    In Spanish law. Land; the demesne, with a house, situate in a strong or fortified place. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 5, c 3, | 2.
  • SOLAR DAY
    That period of time which begins at sunrise and ends at sunset Co. Litt 135a.
  • SOLAR MONTH
    A calendar month. See MONTH.
  • SOLARIUM
    Lat In the civil law. A rent paid for the ground, where a person built on the public land. A ground rent Spelman; Calvin.
  • SOLATIUM
    Compensation. Damages allowed for injury to the feelings.
  • SOLD NOTE
    A note given by a broker, who has effected a sale of merchandise, to the buyer, stating the fact of sale, quantity, price, etc. Story, Ag. I 28; Saladin Mitchell, 45 111. 83.
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