Sodomy
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A carnal copulation by human beings with each other against nature, or with a beast.
2 Bish. Crim. Law, §1029.
A distinction not generally recognized has been made between bestiality and sodomy, the former being defined as carnal connection between a human being and a brute, and the latter as carnal_ connection between two human beings against the order of nature.
10 Ind. 355.
It has generally been held that at common law the crime of sodomy was committed by penetration per anum, and not per OS. A penetration of the mouth is not sodomy.
Bishop's New Criminal Law, Vol. 2, §1194; 2 Russell on Crimes, p. 638; Mc Clain's Crim. Law, §1153; 86 Neb. 237, 21 Am. & Eng. Ann. Cas. 336; 133 Ky. 720, 118 S. W. 943.
SOIT BAILE AUX COMMONS (Law Fr. let it be delivered to the commons). The form of indorsement on a bill when sent to the house of commons.
Dyer, 93a.
SOIT BAILE AUX SEIGNEURS (Law Fr. let it be delivered to the lords). The form of indorsement on a bill in parliament when sent to the house of lords. Hob. Ilia.