societas leonina (s[schwa]-sI-[schwa]-tas lee-[schwa]-nI-n[schwa]). [Latin “partnership with a lion”] Roman law. An illegal partnership in which a partner shares in only the losses, not the profits; a partnership in which one person takes the lion’s share. — Also termed leonina societas. “But an arrangement by which one party should have all the gain was not […]
leonina societas (lee-[schwa]-nI-n[schwa] s[schwa]-sI-[schwa]-tas). See SOCIETAS LEONINA.
societas leonina 〈拉〉(罗马法)狮子合伙 指全部利益只归部分合伙人所有，其余合伙人不享有收益的一种合伙形式。该名称源于寓言中狮驴合作打猎，但猎物却由狮子独霸的故事。
societas universorum bonorum (s[schwa]-sI-[schwa]-tas yoo-ni-v[schwa]r-sor-[schwa]m b[schwa]-nor-[schwa]m), n. Hist. An entire partnership, including all the individual partners’ property.
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societas (s[schwa]-sI-[schwa]-tas), n. [Latin] Roman law. A partnership between two or more people agreeing to share profits and losses; a partnership contract. “Societas in its widest acceptation denotes two or more persons who unite or combine for the prosecution of a common object; in its more restricted sense it denotes a mercantile partnership …, the
societas navalis (s[schwa]-sI-[schwa]-tas n[schwa]-vay-lis), n. [Latin] Hist. A naval partnership; an assembly of vessels for mutual protection. — Also termed admiralitas.
admiralitas (ad-m[schwa]-ral-[schwa]-tas), n. [Law Latin] 1. Admiralty; an admiralty court. 2. SOCIETAS NAVALIS.
(ak-shee-oh proh soh-shee-oh).Roman law. An action brought by one partner against another. Pl. actiones pro socio. See SOCIETAS.
Hist. A contract arising from the mere consensus of the parties, without any formal or symbolic acts performed to fix the obligation. • Although the consensual contract was known to the common law, it originated in Roman law, where it embraced four types of contracts in which informal consent alone was suf-ficient: (1) an agency
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