socage
Americannoun
noun
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English legal history the tenure of land by certain services, esp of an agricultural nature
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English law the freehold tenure of land
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of socage
1275–1325; Middle English sokage < Anglo-French socage, equivalent to soc soke + -age -age
Example Sentences
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Burgage, bur′gāj, n. a tenure in socage for a yearly rent: a tenure in Scotland in royal burghs under nominal service of watching.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
A payment of this kind was exacted sometimes from free men in villainage, and even from socage tenants.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
The very fact of copyhold thus gaining on villain socage may have pushed this last on towards freehold.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
Aristocratic Denmark, before the peasant war of 1255-1258, subjected the free peasantry who had been leaseholders for a term of years to unlimited socage duty.
From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)
By these drastic means the government kept the Eastern Townships a wilderness until after 1791, when the townships were granted out in free and common socage, and American settlers began to flock in.
From The United Empire Loyalists : A Chronicle of the Great Migration by Wallace, W. Stewart (William Stewart)
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