A seigniory or lordship, enfranchised by the king, with liberty of holdiug a court of his socmen or socaycrs; i. e., his tenants.

Socage tenure, in Engluud, is the holdiug of certain lauds in consideration of certain inferior services of husbandry to be performed by the teuant to the lord ol the tee. “Socage,” in

A tenant by socage. Socagium idem est qnod servitum so- cae; et soca, idem est quod caruca. Co. Litt 80. Socage is the same as service of the soc; and soc is

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.