soccage
- a variation of socage.
Example Sentences
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Their demands quickly increased; soon they required, not only exemption from tenths and soccage service, but also the reimbursement of fines that had been paid.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav
In Upper Canada, the settlers being chiefly British, the tenures were to be soccage tenures.
From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Ryerson, Egerton
The only feature of our own leases, in the least approaching "villian soccage," is that of the "day's works."
From The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore
They held the mine, the lake, the river, the forest, and the township in free and common soccage.
From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Roger, Charles
There were yet, however, many husbandmen who were not farmers at all: yeomen of soccage tenure, and tenants by copy of court-roll.
From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
