Leoht Gesceot
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A tax for lighting the church. 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.