Socage
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Socagium, I. Tenure by certain service, not military. Free and common socage: the general, and in modem times almost universal, tenure of English land; by free services, not military, as rents (farm produce or money). Villein socage: tenure by base, but certain, services; v. Tenure.