Free Socage
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Lat. liberum socagium!] A tenure by some certain and determinate service, (usually in England, fealty and rent;) called free, because the service was not only certain but honorable, and thus distinguished from villein socage, where the services, though certain, were of a baser nature.
2 Bl. Com. 79. 1 Steph, Com, 192, 194.
Termes de la ley, voc. Socage, This is the tenure by which the great bulk of real property in England is now holden, having absorbed and swallowed up almost every other species of tenure.
2 BL Com. 79, 89. 1 Steph. Com, 197.
Called also common socage, and in the statute 12 Car. II. c. 24, free and common socage.
See Socage.