Frank Ferm
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In English law
A species of estate held in socage, said by Lritton to be “lands and tenements whereof the nature of the fee is changed by feoffment out of chivalry for certain yearly services, and in respect whereof neither homage, ward, marriage, norreliefcan be demanded.” Britt, ce.
66; 2 BI. Comm. 80.