(UK, legal, historical) The right of a lord to hear and decide legal cases on his estate without recourse to other courts.
(UK, legal, historical) The right of a lord to hear and decide legal cases on his estate without recourse to other courts.
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A historical English legal term for a tenant who holds land by socage — a form of land tenure involving payment of rent or performance of certain non-military services, as opposed to knight service. The word belongs to medieval and early modern English land law and is now purely of historical and legal-historical interest.
(UK, legal, obsolete) One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager.
(legal, historical, UK) A tenant by socage.
(UK, historical, or, obsolete) socage.
(UK, legal, obsolete) A custom of tenants to grind corn at the lord's mill.