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socage


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Socage  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  socage 
  n  :  land  tenure  by  agricultural  service  or  payment  of  rent;  not 
  burdened  with  military  service 




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