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1. (n.) socage
(in medieval England) the system permitting a tenant to hold land in exchange for specified services or the payment of rent, and not requiring military service on behalf of the lord.
Etymology: (1275–1325; ME sokage < AF socage=socsoke+-age -age)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) socage
land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) socage
a tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. socage
name given to a feudal tenure by a certain and determinate service other than knight service.
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