Legal Definition and Related Resources of Leonina societas
Meaning of Leonina societas
(Lat.) An attempted partnership, in which one party was to bear all the losses, and have no share in the profits, This was a void partnership in Roman law; and, apparently, it would also be void as a partnership in English law, as being inherently inconsistent with the notion of partnership. Dig. 17. 2. 29. 2; Brown.
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Concept of “Leonina Societas”
Traditional meaning of leonina societas in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) The Lion’s partnership, a partnership where one party gets all the advantage.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Leonina Societas”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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