socage
or soc·cage
a tenure of land held by the tenant in performance of specified services or by payment of rent, and not requiring military service.
Origin of socage
1Words Nearby socage
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How to use socage in a sentence
It empowered persons possessed of land in free socage to give or devise same for the maintenance of the poor.
Landholding In England | Joseph FisherAll future tenures created by the king to be in free and common socage, reserving rents to the Crown and also fines on alienation.
Landholding In England | Joseph FisherSome of them as tenants in free socage may maintain their position; many fall down into the class of tenants in villeinage.
Domesday Book and Beyond | Frederic William MaitlandThe agricultural services of the socage tenants had long disappeared.
The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century | Richard Henry TawneySoc′ager, Soc′man, a tenant by socage; Soc′manry, tenure by socage.
British Dictionary definitions for socage
/ (ˈsɒkɪdʒ) /
English legal history the tenure of land by certain services, esp of an agricultural nature
English law the freehold tenure of land
Origin of socage
1Derived forms of socage
- socager, noun
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