Definition of Socager. Meaning of Socager. Synonyms of Socager

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Definition of Socager

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

Meaning of Socager from wikipedia

- common socage". The holder of a soc or socage tenure was referred to as a socager (Anglo-Norman) or Socman (Anglo-Saxon, also spelt sochman, from the legal...
- than 40 square arpents were considered to be of little value by villein socagers. To maximize simplicity when surveying, estates in villein socage were...
- goose) scarcely distinguishable from those of the rent-paying tenant or socager. The legal historians Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland (1895)...
- who were obliged to pay duties or render socage to their liege lords a socager, or socman. Unlike ministeriales, they held a lower social rank equivalent...
- were, according to Oxford English Dictionary Online, "a group of free socagers having no feudal superior except the king." This usage is now considered...
- Custom provided for the payment of an annual feu-duty (the cens) by villein socagers to the landlord as both revenue and as a token of submission. The entry...
- the Duke of Württemberg's new residence in nearby Ludwigsburg, mostly as socagers. In these days, po****tion skyrocketed, from 543 in 1741 to nearly 1000...
- town of Radkersburg, the following was ****essed to be needed: 20 workers (socagers from the surrounding villages), eight log posts each of three fathoms (ca...