KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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SOCER

SODOMY

SOCER.

Lat In the civil law. A wife's

ed together for any mutual or common pur pose. In a wider sense, the community or public; the people in general. See New York County Medical Ass'n v. New York, 32 Misc. Rep. 116, 65 N. Y. Supp. 531; Josey v. Un ion L. & T. Co., 106 Ga. 608, 32 S. E. 628; Gilmer v. Stone, 120 U. S. 586, 7 Sup. Ct 689, 30 L. Ed. 734. Socii mei socins mens socius non 'est. The partner of my partner is not my part ner. Dig. 50, 17, 47, 1.

father; a father-in-law. Calvin.

SOCIALISM. 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 com munism, 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 dividuals, but of communities or associations or of the government- 1 Mill, Pol. Econ. 248. In Spanish and Mexi can law. A business corporation. "By the corporate name, the shareholders' names are unknown to the world; and, so far as their .connection with the corporation is concerned, their own names may be said to be anonymous, that is, nameless. Hence the derivation of the term 'anonymous' as applied to a body of per sons associated together in the form of a com pany to transact any given business under a company name which does not disclose any of their own." Hall, Mer. Law, § 749. SOCIETAS. Lat. In the civil law. Part nership; 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 gaiD. Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 2, c. 18, no. 12. — Societas leonina. That kind of society or partnership by which the entire profits belong to some of the partners, in exclusion of the rest. So called in allusion to the fable of the 1 lion, who, having entered into partnership with other animals for the purpose of hunting, ap propriated all the prey to himself. It was void. Wharton — rSocietas navalis. A naval partnership; an association of vessels; a num ber of ships pursuing their voyage in com pany, for purposes of mutual protection. ship. See COMMENDAM. — Societe anonyme. An association where the liability of all the partners is limited. It had fin England until lately no other name than that of "chartered company," meaning thereby a joint-stock company whose shareholders, by a charter from the crown, or a special enactment of the legislature, stood exempted from any liability for the debts of the concern, bevond the amount of their subscriptions. 2 Mill, Pol. Econ. 485.—Societe en commandite. In Louisiana. A partnership formed by a con tract by which one person or partnership agrees to furnish another person or partnership, a certain amount,- either in property or money, to be employed by the person or partnership to whom it is furnished, in his or their own name or firm, on condition of receiving a share in the profits, in the proportion determined by the contract, and of being liable to losses and expenses to the amount furnished and no more. Civ. Code La. art. 2810. SOCIEDAD. In Spanish law. Partner ship. Schm. Civil Law, 153, 154. — Sociedad anonima. SOCI^TE. Fr. In French law. Partner

SOCIUS.

Lat In the civil law. A part

ner.

SOCMAN.

A socager.

—Free socmen. In old English law. Ten ants in free socage. Glanv. lib. 3, c 7; 2 Bl. Comm. 79.

SOCMANRY.

Free tenure by socage.

SOCNA.

A privilege, liberty, or fran

chise. Cowell.

SOCOME. A custom of grinding corn at the lord's mill. Cowell. Bond-socome is where the tenants are bound to it Blount

SODOMITE.

One who has been guilty

of sodomy.

SODOMY. In criminal law. The crime of unnatural sexual connection; so named from its prevalence in Sodom. See Gene sis, xix. This term is often defined in statutes and judicial decisions as meaning "the crime against nature," the "crimen innominatum," or as car nal copulation, against the order of nature, by man with man, or, in the same unnatural manner, with woman or with a beast. See Cr. Code Ga. § 4352; Honselman v. People, 168 111. 172, 48 N. E. 304. But, strictly speaking, it should be used only as equivalent to "pederas ty," that is, the sexual act as performed by a man upon the person of another man or a boy by penetration of the anus. See Ausman v. Veal, 10 Ind. 355, 71 Am. Dec. 331. The term might also, without any great violence to its original meaning, be so extended as to cover the same act when performed in the same man ner by a man upon the person of a woman. Another possible method of unilateral sexual connection, by penetration of the mouth (penem in orem alii immittere, vel penem alii in orem recipere) is not properly called "sodomy," but "fellation." That this does not constitute sodo my within the meaning of a statute is held in Harvey v. State, 55 Tex Cr. App. 199, 115 S. W. 1193; Com. v. Poindexter (Ky.) 118 S. W. 943; Lewis v. State, 36 Tex. Cr. R. 37, 35 S. W. 372, 6J Am. St. Rep. 831. On the other band "bestiality is the carnal copulation of a human being with a brute, or animal of the sub-human orders, of the opposite sex. It is not identical with sodomy, nor is it a form of sod omy, though the two terms are often confused in legal writings and sometimes in statutes. See Ausman v. Veal, 10 Ind. 355, 71 Am. Dec. 331. Buggery is a term rarely used in stat utes, but apparently including both sodomy ,1n the widest sense) and bestiality as above de fined. See Ausman v. Veal, 10 Ind. 355, 71 Am. Dec. 331; Com. v. J., 21 Pa. Co. Ct R. 625.

SOCIETY. An association or company of persons (generally not incorporated) unit