Socage
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Tenure - in law, manner in which property in land is held.
Socage:
A term of the feudal system which referred to the tenure which was exchanged for certain goods or services which were not military in nature.
SOCAGE, Eng. law. A tenure of lands by certain inferior services in husbandry, and not knight's service, in lieu of all other services. Litt. sect. 117.
SOCER. The father of one's wife; a father-in-law.
Expanded Legal Definition of Small ClaimsSocage A term of the feudal land ownership system which referred to the tenure which was exchanged for certain goods or services which were not military in nature.
That system has recognized as many as seven forms of tenure - ward, socage, mortification, feu, blench, burgage, booking. Ward, the original military holding, was abolished in 1747 (20 G. II. c. 20), as an effect of the rising of 1745.
If anyone holds of us by fee-farm, either by socage or by burgage, or of any other land by military service, we shall not have the wardship of the heir or his land which belongs to another's fee, because of that fee-farm, or socage or burgage, ...
'The writ of admeasurement of dower lieth where the heir when he is within age, and endoweth the wife of more than she ought to have dower of; or if the guardian in chivalry, [for the guardian in socage cannot assign dower, ...
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