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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