Search:socage -> SOCAGE
socage
s o c a g e hex:#115;#111;#99;#97;#103;#101;
The Salt of the World?
- Socage - n. - 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.
- Socager - n. - A tennant by socage; a socman.
- Bockland - n. - Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.