SOCIDA

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  SOCIDA, civ. law. This is the name of a contract by which one man delivers 
  to another, either for a small recompense, or for a part of the profits, 
  certain animals, on condition that if any of them perish they shall be 
  replaced by the bailer, or he shall pay their value. 
       2. This is a contract of hiring, with this condition, that the bailee 
  takes upon him the risk of the loss of the thing hired. Wolff, Sec. 638.