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.
The records show the family held the land as socagers paying an annual sum to the lord of the manor.
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(legal, historical, UK) A tenant by socage.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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