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Societas

Lat in the clvll law. Part-nershlp; 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

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)