A variant of 'socage', the medieval English feudal land tenure in which a tenant held land in exchange for fixed agricultural or money rents rather than military service.
A variant of 'socage', the medieval English feudal land tenure in which a tenant held land in exchange for fixed agricultural or money rents rather than military service. Socmanry specifically referred to the condition or class of socmen (free peasants holding under socage). Free socage became the standard form of English land tenure after feudal tenures were abolished in 1660.
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(UK, legal, obsolete) One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager.
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.
(legal, historical, UK) A tenant by socage.
(UK, legal, obsolete) A custom of tenants to grind corn at the lord's mill.
The manor rolls listed several households holding under socmanry, owing the lord a fixed bushel of grain each Michaelmas.
(UK, historical, or, obsolete) socage.