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Definition of Socage
1. Noun. Land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service.
Definition of Socage
1. 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.
Definition of Socage
1. Noun. (obsolete) In the Middle Ages, a system whereby a tenant would pay a rent or do some agricultural work for the landlord. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Socage
1. a form of feudal land tenure [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Socage
Literary usage of Socage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"Kinds of free and common socage.—As, therefore, the grand criterion and distinguishing
mark of these species of o Wright, 211. i Meaning of socage. ..."
2. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary ...by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1853)
"The ваше statute enacts, that all tenures which should afterwards be created by
the king, should be va free and common socage only. Nothing can be more full ..."
3. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone (1876)
"(in) It was the certainty therefore that denominated it a socage tenure ...
Wherefore also Brit- ton, who describes lands in socage tenure under the name of ..."
4. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1866)
"Guardian in socage has the custody of the * infant's * 222 lands, as "well as of
his person. (a) It applies only to lands which the infant acquires by ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Distresses by James Bradby, John Adams (1828)
"Of Tenure Tenure in socage was formerly of two kinds, villein so- m socage.
cage and free socage- The former consisted of services that were certain, ..."
6. A Digest of the Laws of England Respecting Real Property by William Cruise, Henry Hopley White (1835)
"Also a man may hold of his lord by fealty only; and such tenure is tenure in socage.
For every tenure, which is not tenure in ..."
7. An Elementary Digest of the Law of Property in Land by Stephen Martin Leake (1874)
"The services of socage tenure were originally of an agricultural or ... But the
chief characteristic of socage tenure, as distinguished from tenure by ..."
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