Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
free and common socage.
See free socage under SOCAGE.
free socage
Socage in which the services were both certain and honorable. ( By the statute 12 Car. 2, ch. 24 (1660), all the tenures by knight-service were, with minor exceptions, converted into free socage. - Also termed free and common socage; liberum socagium.
guardian in socage.
Hist. A guardian for a child under 14 who has acquired lands by descent. ( Such a guardian is usu. a relative who could not possibly inherit from the child. This type of guardianship applied to both the person and the property of the child and lasted only until the child was 14, when the child was allowed to select a guardian. See sOCAGE.
socage
Hist. A type of tenure in which a tenant held lands in exchange for providing the lord husbandry-related (rather than military) service. ( Socage, the great residuary tenure, was any free tenure that did not fall within the definition of knight-service, serjeanty, or frankalmoin. Cf. KNIGHT-SERVICE; VILLEINAGE. "If they [the peasant's duties] were fixed - for instance, helping the lord with sowing or reaping at specified times - the tenure was usually called socage. This was originally the tenure of socmen; but it became ... a generic term for all free services other than knightservice, serjeanty, or spiritual service." J.H. Baker, An Introduction to English Legal History 260 (3d ed. 1990).
socager
A tenant by socage; SOCMAN.
villein socage
Socage in which the services, though certain, were of a baser nature than those provided under free socage.