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Socager
Socager Soc"a*ger, n. (O. Eng. Law) A tennant by socage; a socman.

Meaning of Socage from wikipedia

- Socage (/ˈsɒkɪdʒ/) was one of the feudal duties and land tenure forms in the English feudal system. It eventually evolved into the freehold tenure called...
- Abolition Act 1660. The baronies not converted became baronies of free socage, a dignity title. There exist today a very few cases of English families...
- Depiction of socage on the royal demesne in feudal England, c. 1310...
- outright (fee simple), or by any of several forms of land tenure, among them socage, quit-rent, leasehold, and copyhold. In some contexts, "peasant" has a pejorative...
- the roll of the manorial court as a record of such non-standard terms. by socage. This was the lowest form of tenure, involving payment in produce or in...
- Seigneurial Tenures Abolition Act of October 1854, and a form similar to socage replaced it. Property owned under allodial title is referred to as allodial...
- The Tenures Abolition Act 1660 declared that all land was to be held by socage tenure, ending the feudal tenure. Lawler, J. John; Lawler, Gail Gates (August...
- gavelkind until the contrary was proved. It was more correctly described as socage tenure, subject to the custom of gavelkind. The chief peculiarities of the...
- Customary freehold Landed gentry Peerages in the United Kingdom Feudal duties Avera and inward Socage Scutage Feudal aid Scot and lot Tallage Feudalism v t e...
- lands of which had been partly alienated, which were thereby converted into socage tenures (i.e. paying money rents), or in some cases, tenures by knight-service...