Category: dictionaries

In old Engllsh practlce. Solemnlty or formality of attachments. The issulng of attachments in a certaln formal and regular order. Bract fols. […]

A rite or ceremony; the formallty establlshed by law to render a con-tract, agreement, or other act valld Source: Black's Law Dictionary […]

Formal; in regular form; wlth all the forms of a proceedlng. As to solemn “Form," see Pbobate. As to solemn “oath” and […]

Lat. In the dvil law. Solemn forms of laws; forms of forensic proceedings and of trans-acting legal acts, one of the sources […]

A military man; a prlvatc in the army Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Slngle; lndlvldual; separate; the opposlte of joint; as a sole tenant. Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Compensation. Damages allowed for injury to the feelings Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A note glven by a broker, who has effected a sale of merchandise, to the buyer, stating the fact of sale, quantity, […]

A calendar month. See Month Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat in the clvll law. A rent paid for the ground, where a person bnllt on the publlc land. A ground rent. […]

In Spanlsh law. Laud; the demesue, wlth a house, situate in a strong or fortified place, white, New Recop. b. 1, tlt […]

That perlod of tlme which begins at sunrise and ends at sunset Co. Litt 135a Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lands and tenements which were not heid by knight-service, nor by grand serjeanty, nor by petit, hut by simple servlces; heing, as […]

In Engllsh law. Those who held thelr lands in socage. 2 Bl. Comm. 100 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Thls term means some-thlng more than “traveling,” and applies to a temporary, as contradistinguished from a permanent, residence. Henry v. Ball, 1 […]

The lord's rent gather-er in the soca. Cowell Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The surface, or surface-covering of the land, not including mlnerals beneath it or grass or plants growing upon it But in a […]

Fr. Let it be; ' be it so. A term used in several Law-French phrases employ-ed in English law, particularly as expressive […]

In criminal law. The crlme of unnatural sexual connectlon; so named from its prevalence in Sodom. See Genesis, xix Source: Black's Law […]

A custom of grinding com at the lord’s mill. Cowell. Bond-socome is where the tenants are bound to it Blount Source: Black's […]

One who has been guilty of sodomy Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Free tenure by socage Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A privilege, liberty, or franchise. CowelL Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

LaL In the civil law. A part-ner Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A socager Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)