A social insurance program funded by payroll taxes called Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA). The primary part of the program is called OASDI (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) or RSDI (Retirement, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) and provides payment benefits for retirement, disability, survivorship, and death to the public. … [Read more...] about SOCIAL SECURITY
SOCIETAS LEONINA
Among the Roman lawyers this term signified that kind of society or partnership by which the entire profits should belong to some of the partners in exclusion of the rest. 2. It was so called in allusion to the fable of the lion and other animals, who having entered into partnership for the purpose of hunting, the lion appropriated all the prey to himself. … [Read more...] about SOCIETAS LEONINA
SOFT COPY
An electronic copy or one which requires a machine to read; as opposed to a hard copy on paper. … [Read more...] about SOFT COPY
SOCER
Latin: In the civil law. A wife's father a father-in-law. Calvin. … [Read more...] about SOCER
SOCIETAS
Latin: In the civil law. Partnership; 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 gain. Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 2, c. 18, no. 12. Socitas leonina. That kind of society or partnership by which the entire profits belong to some of the partners, in … [Read more...] about SOCIETAS