socage

How To Use socage In A Sentence

• Some grants were also given in franc aleu roturier, equivalent to the English tenure of free and common socage, and were generally made for special objects. [ Lord Elgin
• These three Manors did not come into the possession of the Audleys until early in the 12 th century when they were held by socage, i.e. military service, from the De Verdun family.
• A minor might, however, inherit land held by what was known as socage tenure, which according to Sir William Blackstone The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
• The proprietors held their land in free and common socage, and the planters in the Northern Neck paid quitrents and fees to the proprietors rather than to the crown. Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699
• Nor shall we have wardship of that fee-farm, socage, or burgage, unless the fee-farm owes knight's service.
• He had just got to the bit about Raptu Haeredis, which -- as of course you know, is a writ for taking away an heir holding in socage. The Girl on the Boat
• But this does not hold good where the King is the lord of the common pasture, and several persons holding of him in socage have common, because in that case anyone having common may avow a good distress. The Customs of Old England
• Hence it is that, as a rule, the slave (§ 71, ff.) and socager work least willingly, the day laborer with less industry than the piece-worker, (240) who is at the same time more satisfied with himself, and gives most satisfaction to his master, (241) since he acquires more both for himself and for his master. System der volkswirthschaft. English
• It is curious that while in England the burgage-tenure was deemed a species of socage, to distinguish it from the military holdings, in Scotland it was strictly a military holding, by the service of watching and warding for the defence of the burgh. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• The money paid in lieu of socage service, which ought to be applied to the wants of the province in which the socage is due, is forwarded to Manila.