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.