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villein socage
noun
Medieval History.
- land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of villein socage1
First recorded in 1760–70
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Example Sentences
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Not in free and common socage, but in this amphibious subordinate class of villein socage.
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His right to the land, in fact, was not freehold, but tenure by villein socage.
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