Socage

[sɔkidʒ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service.

卡洛整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent.

格里菲思校對

解釋/意思:

n. the tenure of lands by service fixed and determinate in quality.—ns. Soc′ager Soc′man a tenant by socage; Soc′manry tenure by socage.

布赖恩特編輯