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Socage

Socage Meaning & Definition
Socage Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Socage?

[n] land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service

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Socage In Webster's Dictionary

\Soc"age\, n.[From {Soc}; cf. LL. socagium.] (O.Eng. Law) A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent. [Written also {soccage}.] Note: Socage is of two kinds; {free socage}, where the services are not only certain, but honorable; and {villein socage}, where the services, though certain, are of a baser nature. --Blackstone.

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