Socage (/ˈsɒkɪdʒ/) was one of the feudal duties and land tenure forms in the English feudal system. It eventually evolved into the freehold tenure called...

Seigneurial Tenures Abolition Act of October 1854, and a form similar to socage replaced it. Property owned under allodial title is referred to as allodial...

Depiction of socage on the royal demesne in feudal England, c. 1310...

The Tenures Abolition Act 1660 declared that all land was to be held by socage tenure, ending the feudal tenure. Lawler, J. John; Lawler, Gail Gates (August...

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the roll of the manorial court as a record of such non-standard terms. by socage. This was the lowest form of tenure, involving payment in produce or in...

outright (fee simple), or by any of several forms of land tenure, among them socage, quit-rent, leasehold, and copyhold. In some contexts, "peasant" has a pejorative...

land, who split the attributes of ownership between them. Estates in free socage were the most macro-level of land division in New France but, within them...

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Abolition Act 1660. The baronies not converted became baronies of free socage, a dignity title. There exist today a very few cases of English families...