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villein socage

noun

, Medieval History.
  1. land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of villein socage1

First recorded in 1760–70

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Example Sentences

His right to the land, in fact, was not freehold, but tenure by villein socage.

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