How To Use Socage In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Nor shall we have wardship of that fee-farm, socage, or burgage, unless the fee-farm owes knight's service.
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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
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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
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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
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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"
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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.
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The lands in Atterton were held of the king, as of the honor of Leicester, in free socage, by suit of court and a rent of 3s. 4d., and worth 2s.
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They were given in freehold, in free and common socage.
The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism
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As they claim as joint-heirs or parceners, the land must have been subject to partibility, and therefore of socage tenure.
Notes and Queries, Number 68, February 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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The fixed rent replaced the service, military or personal, required under feudal law; and the socage tenure in effect did not subject the land to the rules of escheat or return of the land to the
Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699
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Lower down the social scale, socage tenure (sometimes known as free socage) was common.
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His right to the land, in fact, was not freehold, but tenure by villein socage.
The Philippine Islands
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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
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It was considered as an incident annexed to their tenure, that the socage vassals of the crown, and so of all the subordinate barons, should receive their lord and all his followers, and supply them in their progresses and journeys, which custom continued for some ages after in Ireland, under the name of _coshering_.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)
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Prince Cuza introduced a series of reforms; the most important were the secularization of the Greek monasteries, the law dealing with public instruction, the codification of the laws on the basis of the Napoleonic Code, and especially the land laws of 1864, by which the peasants were given free possession of the land and the remnants of serfdom, socage and tithes, were abolished.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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The Puritan who went to Massachusetts Bay took his system of socage tenure along with him.
The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism
