Stamp Duty, excise, taxes, perquisites, socage and protection money payable by Jews show that fiscal ingenuity already had a long tradition.
42.
Every feoffment made by a new tenant could not be in frankalmoign, since the donee was a layman; it would be reckoned by the laws of socage.
43.
Portland's title to the socage manor of Carlisle and Inglewood forest was never tried and he eventually sold the properties to the Duke of Devonshire in 1787.
44.
Estates in free socage ( " seigneuries " ) were subject to different rules of inheritance, and estates in villein socage had to be partitioned equally.
45.
Estates in free socage ( " seigneuries " ) were subject to different rules of inheritance, and estates in villein socage had to be partitioned equally.
46.
The practice of socage whereby the peasants pledged a payment ( either in agricultural goods or money ) for the privilege to inhabit and farm the land became the standard practice.
47.
However, if a mesne lord was involved, then services such as socage, fee and other services might be extracted from the land, either in part or in total.
48.
Prince-Archbishop Valdemar confederated with the free peasants of Stedingen, a region within the Prince-Archbishopric whose inhabitants rejected to be subjected as serfs, sparing them from socage.
49.
Free tenure was either military tenure, called also tenure in chivalry, or socage ( including burgage and petit serjeanty ), or frankalmoin, by which ecclesiastical corporations generally held their land.
50.
The rest ceased to exist as feudal baronies by tenure, becoming baronies in free socage, that is to say under a " free " ( hereditable ) contract requiring payment of monetary rents.
