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...

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...

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...

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...

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gavelkind until the contrary was proved. It was more correctly described as socage tenure, subject to the custom of gavelkind. The chief peculiarities of the...

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...

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lands of which had been partly alienated, which were thereby converted into socage tenures (i.e. paying money rents), or in some cases, tenures by knight-service...