Socages is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 130 anagrams from letters in socages (acegoss).
1275-1325; Middle English sokage Anglo-French socage, equivalent to soc soke + -age -age
It is a stepping-stone from villainage to socage, or rather to socman's tenure.
Thus, relief and heriot will still be paid for land in socage.
But did any hold of the king in socage, except on his demesne lands?
He had just got to the bit about Raptu Haeredis, which—as of course you know, is a writ for taking away an heir holding in socage.
Those few coerls whose land was not taken by a baron remained free and held their land "in socage" and became known as sokemen.
A third part he divided among husbandmen, to hold of him in socage.
Nor will we have the custody of such fee farm, socage, or burgage unless such fee farm owe knight's service.
It speaks of three species of socage—free, ancient demesne, and base.
The socage land of a free sokeman goes by its ancient custom before the Norman Conquest.
New conditions of holding superior to that of "socage" were introduced.