A minor might, however, inherit land held by what was known as socage tenure, which according to Sir William Blackstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

His right to the land, in fact, was not freehold, but tenure by villein socage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

The proprietors held their land in free and common socage, and the planters in the Northern Neck paid quitrents and fees to the proprietors rather than to the crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699] Reference

The fixed rent replaced the service, military or personal, required under feudal law; and the socage tenure in effect did not subject the land to the rules of escheat or return of the land to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699] Reference

But this does not hold good where the King is the lord of the common pasture, and several persons holding of him in socage have common, because in that case anyone having common may avow a good distress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Customs of Old England] Reference

It is curious that while in England the burgage-tenure was deemed a species of socage, to distinguish it from the military holdings, in Scotland it was strictly a military holding, by the service of watching and warding for the defence of the burgh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

Lands in New-Brunswick are held in fee simple or free socage.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of New Brunswick] Reference

Bombay, in free and common socage, as of the Manor of East Greenwich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4] Reference

The people were to become their own lords paramount of all socage lands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The United States of America, Part 1] Reference

Virginia was held in free and common socage and could not be forbidden to any man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Records of the Virginia Company of London] Reference

Not a reasonable maxim, that the next of kin to whom the land may descend shall not be guardian in socage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]] Reference

The socage tenure of his estate gave him free choice of his own guardian, and he chose his mother's mother, Lady Samuel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference

As they claim as joint-heirs or parceners, the land must have been subject to partibility, and therefore of socage tenure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 68, February 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

This Act provided that all lands should "be held in free and common socage according to the tenure of East Greenwich in England.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl on the Boat] Reference

William III. to the first Earl of Portland, in virtue of which he held the forest of Inglewood and the socage of Carlisle, valued at about.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration] Reference

How, for instance, could 50 days annually of socage-service or labor be redeemed by the achievement at one time of 1,000 days of socage-service or labor?.    From Wordnik.com.  [System der volkswirthschaft. English] Reference

If the tenant was in an office about the king's person, this gave rise to sergeantry; the persons who cultivated his lands may be considered as holding by socage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)] Reference

When the serfs had been set at liberty by manumission, the socage-tenants or free-tenants, as they were called, were still bound by their fixed agreements of tenure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mediaeval Socialism] Reference

The king shall not claim the wardship of any minor who holds lands by military tenure of a baron, on pretence that he also holds lands of the crown by socage or any other tenure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante)] Reference

But in 1606 the land was held by the undertakers, and again in 1609 by the adventurers and planters in free and common socage, as of the manor of Greenwich of the county of Kent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Records of the Virginia Company of London] Reference

Most of the "feudal incidents" of the socage tenure had been previously abolished by an Act passed in 1787, under the first Constitution of the State, adopted at Kingston in 1777.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)] Reference

This the statute effectually secures, by converting into socage all tenures by knight's service, and by taking from the crown the power of creating any other tenure than socage in future.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not ...] Reference

It was also provided that the property should be held, at an annual rent of twenty marks, "as of our manor of East Greenwich, in Kent, in free and common socage and not in capite, or by knight's service.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina (1663-1729)] Reference

Under Henry III and Edward I, socage tenants became more and more frequent; but, before long, their duties became less onerous, and might be discharged by others hired for the purpose, instead of by themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [System der volkswirthschaft. English] Reference

Above all, the owner of the soil could still hold his head high as the veritable Socman of Minstead -- that is, as holding the land in free socage, with no feudal superior, and answerable to no man lower than the king.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Company]

` socage ', or ` burgage', unless the ` fee-farm 'owes knight's service.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magna Carta] Reference

A year after the Declaration of American Independence; and socage tenure by fixed and determinate service, not military or variable by the lord at his will, had been adopted long before by an Act of the first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)] Reference

1255-1258, subjected the free peasantry who had been leaseholders for a term of years to unlimited socage duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [System der volkswirthschaft. English] Reference

(37) If a man holds land of the Crown by ` fee-farm ', ` socage', or.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magna Carta] Reference

24. have no more power than guardians in socage, and are but trustees, on whose misbeha - viour, or giving occasion for suspi - cion, the Court of Chancery will in - terpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]] Reference

J socage grantable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not ...] Reference