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(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.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Socage'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/socage.html. 1828.
 
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