socage 的定义
Medieval English Law.
- a tenure of land held by the tenant in performance of specified services or by payment of rent, and not requiring military service.
更多socage例句
- It empowered persons possessed of land in free socage to give or devise same for the maintenance of the poor.
- All future tenures created by the king to be in free and common socage, reserving rents to the Crown and also fines on alienation.
- Some of them as tenants in free socage may maintain their position; many fall down into the class of tenants in villeinage.
- The agricultural services of the socage tenants had long disappeared.
- Soc′ager, Soc′man, a tenant by socage; Soc′manry, tenure by socage.