Lat In the civil law. A wife’s father; a father-in-law. Calvin.

A scheme of government aiming at absolute equality in the distribution of tlie physical means of life and enjoyment It is on the continent employed in a larger seuse; not necessarily implying

In Spanish law. Partnership. Schm. Civil Law, 153, 154.

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

Fr. In French law. Partnership. See COMMENDAM.

An association or company of persons (generally not Incorporated) unit ed together for any mutual or common purpose. In a wider seuse, the community or public; the people in general. See New

Lat In the civil law. A partner.

A socager.

Free tenure by socage.

A privilege, liberty, or franchise. Cowell.

A custom of grinding corn at the lord’s mill. Cowell. Boud-socome is where the tenants are bound to it Blount.

One who has been guilty of sodomy.

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

The surface, or surface-covering of the land, uot Including minerals beneath it or grass or plants growing upon it But in a wider (and more usual) sense, the term is equivalent to

Fr. Let it be; be it so. 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

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.

The lord’s rent gatherer in the soca. Cowell.

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 en- franchised by the king or his

In English law. Those who held their lands in socage. 2 Bl. Comm. 100. Sola ac per se senectns donationem testamentum aut transactionem non vl- tiat. Old age does not alone and

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,