An association or company of persons (generally not incorporated) unit
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In Spanish law. Partner-ship. Schm. CivU Law, 153, 154
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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
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ER. Lat in the civil law. A wife's lather; a father-in-law. Calvin
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A scheme of government aiming at absolute equality in the distribu-tion of the physical means of life and en-Joyment It is on the continent employed in a larger sense; not necessarily implying communism, or the entire abolition of private property, but applied to any system which requires that the land and the instruments of production should be the property, not of in-dividnals, but of communities or associations or of the government 1 Mill, Pol. Econ. 248
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Socage tenure, in Eugland, is the holding of certaiu lands in consideration of certain inferior services of husbandry to be performed by the tenant to the lord of the fee. "Socage,” in its most general and ex-tensive signification, seems to denote a tenure by auy certain and determinate service. And in this sense it is by the ancient writers constantly put in opposition to tenure by chivalry or kuight-service, where the render was precarious and uncertain. Socage is of two sorts,—free socage, where the servlces are not only certain, but honorable; and vil-lein socage, where the services, though certain, are of baser nature. Such as hold by the former tenure are also called in Glanvil and other authors by the name of “liberi sokemanni," or tenants in free socage. By the statute 12 Car. 2, c. 24, all the tenures by knight-service were, with one or two im-material exceptions, converted into free and common socage. See Cowell; Bract 1. 2, c. 35; 2 Bl. Comm. 79; Fleta, lib. 3, c. 14, § 9; Litt | 117; Glan. L 3, c. 7
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8OK, or SOKA. In Saxon law. Jurisdiction; a power or privllege to admin-ister justice and execute the laws; also a shire, circuit, or territory. Cowell. A
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A seigniory or lordship, enfran-chised by the king, with liberty of holding a court of his socmen or socagers; i. e., his tenants
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In Spanish law. Su-perior judges. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit A L L
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The formula, at the end of a common oath
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Span. Above; over; upon. Ruis v. Chambers, 15 Tex. 586, 592
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The offense of lmport-ing prohibited articles, or of defrauding the revenue by the introduction of articles into consumption, without paying the duties
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A small duty which was paid by servile tenants iu wy-legh to the abbot of Colchester. Coweli
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In English law. A sum paid to the ministers of divers parishes as a modus in lieu of tithe-wood. Blount
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The act, with intent to de-fraud, of bringing into the United States, or with like intent, attempting to bring into the United States, dutiable articles, without pass-ing the same, or the package containing the same, through the custom-house, or submit-ting them to the officers of the revenue for examination. 18 U. S. St. at Large, 186 (U. S. Comp. St 1901, p. 2018
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Vindictive or exem-piary damages. See Brewer v. Jacobs (C. C.) 22 Fed. 224; Springer v. Somers Fuel Co., 196 Pa. 156, 46 Ati. 370; Day v. wood-worth, 13 How. 371, 14 L. Ed. 181; Murphy v. Hobbs, 7 Colo. 541, 5 Pac. 119, 49 Am. Rep. 366
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In old English law. An annual rent paid to cathedral churches; another name for the pentecostals or customary oblations offered by the dispersed inhabitants within a diocese, when they made their processions to the mother cathedral chnrch. Cowell
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The sever-al county courts established by St 9 A 10 Vict c. 95, for the purpose of bringing jus-tlce home to every man’s door
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All personal and mix-ed tithes, and also hops, flax, saffrons, po-tatoes, and sometimes, by custom, wood, otherwise called “privy tithes.” 2 Steph. Comm. 726
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An artificial channel ln-to which water is let by a sluice. Speciflcal-ly, a trench constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs or lumber can be floated down to a coifvenient place of delivery. VVeb-ster. See Anderson v. Munch, 29 Minn. 416, 18 N. W. 192
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In old records. A small, light vessel; a smack. CowelL
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An arm of a river, flowing be-tween islands and the main-land, and sep-arating the islands from one another. Sloughs have not the breadth of the main river, nor does the main body of water of the stream flow through them. Dunlieth & D. Bridge Co. v. Dubuque County, 55 lowa, 565, 8 N. W. 443
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