KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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SOCAGIUM IDEM EST

SLOUGH SILVER

chargeable upon them. It may be committed indifferently either upon the excise or cus toms revenue. Wharton. SNOTTERING SILVER. A small duty which was paid by servile tenants in Wy legh to the abbot of Colchester. Cowell. SO. This term is sometimes the equiva lent of "hence," or "therefore," and it is thus understood whenever what follows is an illustration of, or conclusion from, what has gone before. Clem v. State, 33 Ind. 431. SO HELP YOU GOD. The formula at the end of a common oath. SOBRE. Span. Above; over; upon. Ruis v. Chambers, 15 Tex. 586, 592. SOBRE-JUEZES. In Spanish law. Su perior judges. Las Partidas, pt 3, tit 4» 1. 1. SOBRINI and SOBRINiE. Lat In the civil law. The children of cousins german in general. SOC, SOK, or SOKA. In Saxon law. Jurisdiction; a power or privilege to admin ister justice and execute the laws; also a shire, circuit, or territory. Cowell. SOCA. A seigniory or lordship, enfran chised by the king, with liberty of holding a court of his socmen or socagers; i. e., his tenants. SOCAGE. Socage tenure, in England, is the holding of certain 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 ten ure by any certain and determinate service. And in this sense it is by the ancient writers constantly put in opposition to tenure by chivalry or knight-service, where the render was precarious and uncertain. Socage is of two sorts,—free socage, where the services are not only certain, but honorable; and vil lein socage, where the services, though cer tain, 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 r 4ib. 3, c. 14, § 9; Lltt § 117; Glan. 1. 3, c. 7. SOCAGER. A tenant by socage. Socagium idem est quod servitvm no cce; et soca, idem est quod caruca. Co. Litt 86. Socage is the same as service of the soc; and soc is the same thing as a plow.

SLOUGH SILVER. A rent paid to the castle of Wigmore, in lieu of certain days' work in harvest, heretofore reserved to the lord from his tenants. Gowell. SLUICEWAY. An artificial channel in to which water is let by a sluice. Specifical ly, a trench constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs or lumber can be floated down to a convenient place of delivery. Web ster. See Anderson v* Munch, 29 Minn. 416, 13 N. W. 192. SMAKA. In old records. A small, light vessel; a smack. Cowell. SMALL DEBTS COURTS. The sever al county courts established by St. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95, for the purpose of bringing jus tice home to every man's door. SMALL TITHES. 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. SMART-MONEY'. Vindictive or exem plary damages. See Brewer v. Jacobs (C. C.) 22 Fed. 224; Springer v. Somers Fuel Co., 196 Pa. 156, 46 Atl. 370; Day v. Wood worth, 13 How. 371, 14 L. Ed. 181; Murphy v. Hobbs, 7 Colo. 541, 5 Pac. 119, 49 Am. Rep. 36a SMOKE-FARTHINGS. In old English law. An annual rent paid to cathedral churches; another name for the pentecostals or customary oblations offered by the dis persed inhabitants within a diocese, when they made their processions to the mother cathedral church. Cowell. SMOKE-SILVER. In English law. A sum paid to the ministers of divers parishes as a modus in lieu of tithe-wood. Blount. SMUGGLE. 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). "The word is a technical word, having a known and accepted meaning. It implies something illegal, and Is inconsistent with an innocent intent. The idea conveyed by it is that of a secret introduction of goods, with intent to avoid payment of duties." U. S. v. Claflin, 13 Blatchf. 184, Fed. Cas. No. 14,79a The offense of import ing prohibited articles, or of defrauding the revenue by the introduction of articles into consumption, without paying the duties SMUGGLING.