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SOCAGE TENURE [10 records]

Record 1 2015-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Farm Management and Policy
  • Agriculture - General
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.

OBS

Socage, the great residuary tenure, was any free tenure that did not fall within the definition of knight-service, serjeanty, or frankalmoin.

OBS

Historical; no longer current in law.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Gestion et politique agricole
  • Agriculture - Généralités
OBS

Le terme «socage coutumier» n'est plus courant en droit des biens.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Agriculture - General
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.

OBS

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

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Agriculture - Généralités
DEF

Sorte de tenure libre médiévale propre à certains bourgs.

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
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.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)

Spanish

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Record 4 2013-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
Key term(s)
  • tenure of free and common socage
  • tenure by free and common socage

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
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).

Spanish

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Record 5 2013-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
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.

Spanish

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Record 6 2013-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
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.

Spanish

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Record 7 2013-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
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)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
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).

Spanish

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Record 8 2013-01-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
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).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
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).

Spanish

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Record 9 2013-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
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.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
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.

Spanish

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Record 10 2012-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
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)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
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).

Spanish

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