Free Socage
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In English law
A tenure of lands by certain free and honorable services, (such as fealty and rent,) and which are liquidated and reduced toa certainty. It was called “free socage” because the services were not only free, but honorable; whereas in vidletn socage the services, though certain, were ofa baser nature.
2 Bl. Comm. 78, 79.