socage

[ sok-ij ]

/ ˈsɒk ɪdʒ /

a tenure of land held by the tenant in performance of specified services or by payment of rent, and not requiring military service.

Origin of socage

1275–1325; Middle English sokage < Anglo-French socage, equivalent to soc soke + -age -age

sobriquet, sobukwe , soc, soc., soca, socage, socager, soccer, soccer mom, socceroos, soche

Thus, relief and heriot will still be paid for land in socage.

Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed. |S. A. Reilly
Freehold appeared as chartered land (book-land),198 while socage was in truth copyhold secured by communal custom.

Villainage in England |Paul Vinogradoff
He had just got to the bit about Raptu Haeredis, which—as of course you know, is a writ for taking away an heir holding in socage.

The Girl on the Boat |Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
It is more correctly described as socage tenure, subject to the custom of gavelkind.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 |Various

Soc′ager, Soc′man, a tenant by socage; Soc′manry, tenure by socage.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) |Various

socage

/ (ˈsɒkɪdʒ) /

English legal history the tenure of land by certain services, esp of an agricultural nature

English law the freehold tenure of land

socager, noun

C14: from Anglo-French, from soc soke