Free Socage
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Tenure in free socage is a tenure by certain and honorable services which yet are not military. 1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 52; Dalr. Feud. Prop. c. 2, § 1; 1 Washb. Real Prop. 25. Called, also, "free and common socage." See "Socage."
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Tenure in free socage is a tenure by certain and honorable services which yet are not military. 1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 52; Dalrymple, Feuds, c. 2, § 1; 1 Washb. R. P. 25; called, also, free and common socage. See Socage.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
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.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
[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.