1lawsocage, tenure of land in return for a fixed annual rent, normally in cash but also sometimes in kind:
(
1215;
MS: 1226
)
ne n'avrons la garde de cele feuferme o del socage o del borgage se cele feuferme ne deit servise de chevalier
Magna Carta 37
(
c.1292;
MS: c.1300
)
ne vileyns, ne sokemans lour socage
BRITT i 223
(
1382-1400
)
issint double la rente pur taunt qe la tenure est socage
(ms. sicage)
Ladbroke 314
(
1469
)
si un enfaunt ne fuit in gard, come si le terre fuist socage, et un usurpacion fuist sur luy duraunt son nounage [...]
Readings i 106.19
2lawsoke, district administered separately from the surrounding areas by a franchise holder:
(
1346
)
Edward Trenchaunt et sa parcenere porterent Ad terminum qui praeteriit de la baillie de la sokage
(var.
soc
) de Wyncestre
YBB 20 i Ed III 81
sokage (1215)