Societas leonina

That kind of society or partnership by which the entire profits belong to some of the partners, in exclusion of the rest So called in allusion to the fable of the 1 lion, who, having entered into partnership with other animals for the purpose of hunting, appropriated all the prey to himself. It was void. Wharton -Societas navalis. A naval partnership; an association of vessels; a number of ships pursuing their voyage in company, for purposes of mutual protection.

Defined under Societas in Black's Law Dictionary.