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Webster 1913 Edition

Socage

Soc′age

,
Noun.
[From
Soc
; cf. LL.
socagium
.]
(O.Eng. Law)
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.
[Written also
soccage
.]
☞
Socage
is of two kinds;
free socage
, where the services are not only certain, but honorable; and
villein socage
, where the services, though certain, are of a baser nature.
Blackstone.

Webster 1828 Edition

Socage

SOC'AGE

,
Noun.
[from soc,supra, a privilege.] In English law, a tenure of lands and tenements by a cetain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the render was uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage; as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent. Socage is of two kinds; free socage, where the services are not only certain, but honorable, and villein socage, where the services, though certain, are of a baser nature.

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