Crossword-Solution: SOCAGE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Socage | n. | A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “SOCAGE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Land tenure in old England. | 1 answer |
| Medieval land tenure | 1 answer |
| RENT payment | 1 answer |
| land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent | 1 answer |
| not burdened with military service | 1 answer |
| tenure of land by certain services | 1 answer |
| tenure of land | 2 answers |
| FEUDAL tenure of land involving payment of rent | 2 answers |
| Land tenure | 11 answers |
| Tenure | 16 answers |
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Sentences with SOCAGE (5)
Law) Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands.
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.
The socage tenure of his estate gave him free choice of his own guardian, and he chose his mother’s mother, Lady Samuel.
Persons holding land of others than the king by knight's service, and also holding socage lands, may devise two third parts of the former and the whole of the latter, saving to the lord his wardship of the third part.
Persons holding lands of the king by knight's service but not in chief, or so holding of the king and others, and also holding socage lands, may in like manner devise two thirds of the former and the whole of the latter, saving to the king the wardship of the third part, and also to the lords; and the king or the other lords were empowered to seize the one third part in case of any deficiency." The 34th and 35th Henry VIII., cap.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1962–1990).