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socage

Anglo-Saxon term for the free tenure of land by the peasantry.

Sokemen, holders of land by this tenure, formed the upper stratum of peasant society at the time of the Domesday Book.



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He has no care for food, lodging, clothes and washing, and has no taxes to pay; he is exempt from military service and soccage, and in spite of his bondage is freer than the freest Fellah in Egypt.
 
 
 
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