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,

A calendar month. See MONTII.

Lat. In the civil law. A rent paid for the ground, where a person built on the public land. A ground rent Spelman; Calvin.

Compensation. Damages allowed for injury to the feelings.

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.

A military man; a private in the army.

Single; individual; separate; the opposite of joint; as a sole tenant. Comprising only one person; the opposite of aggregate; as a sole corporation. Unmarried ; as a feme sole. See the nouns.

o solemnize, spoken of a marriage, means no more than to enter into a marriage contract with due publication, before third persons, for the purpose of giving it notoriety and certainty; which

uity. Most attorneys take out a certificate to practice in the courts of chancery, and therefore become solicitors also, and, on the other hand, most, if not all, solicitors take out a

A term of civil-law origin, signifying that the right or interest spoken of is joint or common. A “solidary obligation” corresponds to a “joint and several” obligation iu the common law; that

Lat. In the civil law. A whole; an entire or undivided thing.

A coin equal to 13s. 4d. of the present standard. 4 Steph. Comm. 119/1. Originally the “solidus” was a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire, but in medieval times the term was

In old English law. Two plow-lands, and somewhat less than a half. Co. Litt. 5a. Solo cedit quod solo insedificatur. That which is built upon the soil belongs to the soil. The