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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Another type of free tenure was socage, primarily customary socage, the principal service of which was usually agricultural in nature, such as performing so many days’ ploughing each year for the lord.  1, record 1, English, - customary%20socage

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Socage, the great residuary tenure, was any free tenure that did not fall within the definition of knight-service, serjeanty, or frankalmoin.  2, record 1, English, - customary%20socage

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 2 OBS

Historical; no longer current in law.  3, record 1, English, - customary%20socage

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Le terme «socage coutumier» n'est plus courant en droit des biens.  2, record 1, French, - socage%20coutumier

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 DEF

The mode of feudal tenure of tenements of land in any ancient borough, or burgh, held of the King or a mesne lord by the burgesses for fixed rents or services.  1, record 2, English, - burgage

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 OBS

This tenure ranked as a form of socage, and was subject to various local customs, notably that of borough-English...  1, record 2, English, - burgage

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Sorte de tenure libre médiévale propre à certains bourgs.  2, record 2, French, - bourgage

Record 2,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 3,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 CONT

There was also a kind of tenure in villeinage known as privileged villeinage or villein socage, which existed in certain lands of the Crown... This kind of tenure gradually became converted into tenure in ancient demesne.  2, record 3, English, - privileged%20villeinage

Record 3,  Textual support,  French

Record 3,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 4,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 DEF

In feudal and old English law, a species of tenure in which the services to be rendered were certain and determinate, but were of a base or servile nature; i.e., not suitable to a man of free and honorable rank.  1, record 4, English, - villein%20socage

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 OBS

[Villein socage] was also called "privileged villeinage, "to distinguish it from "pure villeinage, "in which the services were not certain, but the tenant was obliged to do whatever he was commanded.  1, record 4, English, - villein%20socage

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 2 OBS

Historical term; no longer current in law.  2, record 4, English, - villein%20socage

Record 4,  Textual support,  French

Record 4,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 5,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 CONT

In English law. Land, also called charter land, which was held by deed under certain rents and fee services, and differed in nothing from free socage land.  1, record 5, English, - book%20land

Record 5,  Textual support,  French

Record 5,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 6,  Textual support,  English

Record 6,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 OBS

tenure en franc et commun socage; tenure de franc et commun socage : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, record 6, French, - tenure%20en%20franc%20et%20commun%20socage

Record 6,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 7,  Textual support,  English

Record 7,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 OBS

tenure en socage : qualifiant ce terme d'historique, le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO) n'a pas tenu à le normaliser.  2, record 7, French, - tenure%20en%20socage

Record 7,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 8,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 8, Textual support number: 1 DEF

[In] English law, a tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service ...  2, record 8, English, - socage

Record number: 8, Textual support number: 1 OBS

The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent.  2, record 8, English, - socage

Record 8,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 8, Textual support number: 1 OBS

socage : qualifiant ce terme d'historique le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO) n'a pas tenu à le normaliser.  2, record 8, French, - socage

Record 8,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 9,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 OBS

...(The) power of testamentary disposition over lands could not be withheld altogether, and accordingly it was partially restored by the statute 1539, 32 Hen. 8, c. 1, which enabled a tenant to dispose of the entirety of his socage tenures... and the statute 1660 12 Car. 2, c. 24, having converted all knight-service into socage tenures, the power of alienation by will was by a side wind, made absolute.(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 84)  1, record 9, English, - power%20of%20alienation%20by%20will

Record 9,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 OBS

pouvoir d'aliénation testamentaire : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, record 9, French, - pouvoir%20d%27ali%C3%A9nation%20testamentaire

Record 9,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 10,  Textual support,  English

Record 10,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 10, Textual support number: 1 OBS

tenure en franc socage; tenure en libre socage : qualifiant ces termes d'historique le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO) n'a pas tenu à les normaliser.  2, record 10, French, - tenure%20en%20franc%20socage

Record 10,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 11,  Textual support,  English

Record 11,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 11, Textual support number: 1 OBS

franc socage; libre socage : qualifiant ces termes d'historique le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO) n'a pas tenu à les normaliser.  2, record 11, French, - franc%20socage

Record 11,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 12,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 12, Textual support number: 1 CONT

From 1645 until 1926 the two surviving tenures held the field :socage(often called freehold) and copyhold.... This dual system of tenure was an impediment to conveyancing. Copyhold had the great merit that the books of the manor were a register of title, while freehold titles had to be proved in the traditional way by investigating past transactions recorded in the title deeds.(Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, pp. 33-4)  1, record 12, English, - freehold%20title

Record 12,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 12, Textual support number: 1 OBS

titre franc : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, record 12, French, - titre%20franc

Record 12,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 13,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 13, Textual support number: 1 OBS

It is a fact that free and common socage has been and is the only freehold tenure operative in the common law provinces.(Laskin, Revised Edition, 1964, p. 26).  1, record 13, English, - free%20and%20common%20socage

Record 13,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 13, Textual support number: 1 OBS

franc et commun socage : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, record 13, French, - franc%20et%20commun%20socage

Record 13,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 14,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 14, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Free socage was of two kinds, socage in capite and common socage, but the former has been abolished. Common free socage is the modern ordinary freehold tenure.  2, record 14, English, - common%20socage

Record 14,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 14, Textual support number: 1 OBS

socage commun : Qualifiant ce terme d'historique, le Comité de normalisation du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO) n'a pas tenu à le normaliser.  2, record 14, French, - socage%20commun

Record 14,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 15,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 15, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Common of pasture appurtenant is a right annexed to certain lands, by virtue of which the owner of those lands feeds cattle on the soil of another person; it differs from the right of common appendant in all the characteristics which arise from the connection of the latter with the socage tenure of ancient arable land in a manor; it may, therefore, be held by holders of estates formerly copyhold or by strangers to a manor, and may arise by grant or prescription since "Quia Emptores", 1289, and is not necessarily confined to such beasts as are generally commonable but may extend to swine, goats or geese.(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 387)  1, record 15, English, - common%20of%20pasture%20appurtenant

Record 15,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 15, Textual support number: 1 OBS

communage de pâture dépendant : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, record 15, French, - communage%20de%20p%C3%A2ture%20d%C3%A9pendant

Record 15,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 16,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 16, Textual support number: 1 CONT

When a tenant in socage died and left an heir under the age of fourteen, the guardianship of that heir devolved to the nearest of kin who could not inherit the estate. This guardian was the guardian in socage.  2, record 16, English, - guardian%20in%20socage

Record 16,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 16, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Personne chargée de la tutelle à la personne et aux biens d'un enfant de moins de 14 ans ayant hérité d'une tenure en socage.  2, record 16, French, - tuteur%20en%20socage

Record 16,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 17,  Textual support,  French

Record 17,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 18,  Textual support,  French

Record 18,  Textual support,  Spanish