socman

[sok-muhn, sohk-]

noun

plural

socmen 

1. sokeman.

socman

/ ˈsəʊk-, ˈsɒkmən, ˈsəʊkmən /

noun

1. English history a tenant holding land by socage

Word History and Origins

Origin of socman¹

C16: from Anglo-Latin socmannus; see _soke

Example Sentences

If this privilege came into being merely by the fixation of status at the time when a manor passed from the crown, the state of the villain pure would have got fixed in the same way as that of the villain socman.

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In the status of the socman, developed from the law of Saxon free-men, there was usually nothing of the kind.

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I will just recall to the reader's mind the fundamental facts: that the 'little writ of right' was to insure justice according to the custom of the manor, and that our documents distinguish in as many words between the customary admittance of the socman and the feoffment of the freeholder.

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To put it in a different way, the documents had to name a class which held by certain custom, although by base service, and they added the 'socman' to qualify the 'bond' or the 'villain.'

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Nevertheless the contrast with the villains appears throughout the Cartulary and is substantiated by a marked difference in point of assessment: a socman has to work one or two days in the week when the villain is made to work three or four.

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