Socage
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
soccage, Socagium, soccagium, sockagium, sokaginm, I I In English law. A tenure by any certain and determinate service not military. Free socage, the most honorable of this kind of tenure, and the tenure by which land in England is now mainly held, is tenure by free services, not military, as rents, — farm produce or money. Villein socage is tenure by services certain but base.