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Fr. In French law. Partner-ship. See Commendam Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An association or company of persons (generally not incorporated) unit Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Spanish law. Partner-ship. Schm. CivU Law, 153, 154 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat in the clvll law. Part-nershlp; a partnership; the contract of partnership. Inst 3, 26. A contract by which the goods or […]

ER. Lat in the civil law. A wife's lather; a father-in-law. Calvin Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A scheme of government aiming at absolute equality in the distribu-tion of the physical means of life and en-Joyment It is on […]

Socage tenure, in Eugland, is the holding of certaiu lands in consideration of certain inferior services of husbandry to be performed by […]

A tenant by socage Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

8OK, or SOKA. In Saxon law. Jurisdiction; a power or privllege to admin-ister justice and execute the laws; also a shire, circuit, […]

A seigniory or lordship, enfran-chised by the king, with liberty of holding a court of his socmen or socagers; i. e., his […]

In Spanish law. Su-perior judges. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit A L L Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

and SOBRINX. LaL In the Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The formula, at the end of a common oath Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Span. Above; over; upon. Ruis v. Chambers, 15 Tex. 586, 592 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The offense of lmport-ing prohibited articles, or of defrauding the revenue by the introduction of articles into consumption, without paying the duties […]

A small duty which was paid by servile tenants iu wy-legh to the abbot of Colchester. Coweli Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In English law. A sum paid to the ministers of divers parishes as a modus in lieu of tithe-wood. Blount Source: Black's […]

The act, with intent to de-fraud, of bringing into the United States, or with like intent, attempting to bring into the United […]

Vindictive or exem-piary damages. See Brewer v. Jacobs (C. C.) 22 Fed. 224; Springer v. Somers Fuel Co., 196 Pa. 156, 46 […]

In old English law. An annual rent paid to cathedral churches; another name for the pentecostals or customary oblations offered by the […]

The sever-al county courts established by St 9 A 10 Vict c. 95, for the purpose of bringing jus-tlce home to every […]

All personal and mix-ed tithes, and also hops, flax, saffrons, po-tatoes, and sometimes, by custom, wood, otherwise called “privy tithes.” 2 Steph. […]

An artificial channel ln-to which water is let by a sluice. Speciflcal-ly, a trench constructed over the bed of a stream, so […]

In old records. A small, light vessel; a smack. CowelL Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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 […]