socman
Americannoun
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socmen
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of socman
C16: from Anglo-Latin socmannus; see soke
Example Sentences
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Oh that I were a minstrel, that I might put it into rhyme, with the whole romance—the luckless maid, the wicked socman, and the virtuous clerk!
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In the status of the socman, developed from the law of Saxon free-men, there was usually nothing of the kind.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
Was John de Boneya a socman bound to attend personally, or a hundredor, a hereditary representative of the village of Stocke?
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
My brother Simon Edricson is socman there, and I go to bide with him for a while.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The suitors of the court in their collective capacity come very characteristically to the front in the admittance of the socman, and it is on their communal testimony that the whole transaction has to rest.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
If we look now to the socmen outside the ancient demesne, we shall find their condition so closely similar, that the documents constantly confuse them with the tenants of the ancient demesne.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
I need not say that the socmen of ancient demesne, privileged villains as Bracton calls them, are sometimes subjected to very burdensome services and duties.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
In the Danelaw counties, on the other hand, the privilege would have been of no use, as those who were called socmen there were freeholders protected without any reference to ancient demesne.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
They evidently belong to the class of villain socmen outside the ancient demesne, of which more hereafter.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
Villain socmen enjoy a certainty of condition which becomes actual tenant-right when the manor passes from the crown into a private lord's hand.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
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