{i} right to possess land in return for agricultural or other nonmilitary services (according to medieval English law)
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
land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service
The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent
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[ 'sä-kij, 'sO- ] (noun.) 14th century. From Middle English sokage from Anglo-Norman socage from soc (“soke”) + -age. More at soke, -age.