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Socage

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service a tenure distinct from chivalry or knights 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

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