soboles (sobolez)

[NL., sociable certain, and from villeinage, where the service was of the meanest kind: the only freehold tenure in England after the abolition of military tenures. Socage has generally been distinguished free and villein - free socage, or common or simple soc age, where the service was not only certain but honorable, as by fealty and the payment of a small sum, as of a few shillings, in name of annual rent, and villein socage, where the service, though certain, was of a baser nature. This last tenure was the equivalent of what is now called copy hold tenure. In socage land-the land, that is, which was held by free tenure, but without military service - the contest between primogeniture and gavel-kind was still undecided in the thirteenth century. F. Pollock , Land Laws, p. 57. Guardianship in socage, a guardianship at common law as an incident to lands held by socage tenure. It occurs where the infant is seized, by descent, of lands or other hereditaments holden by that tenure, and is conferred on the next of kin to the infant who cannot po ibly inherit the lands from him. Minor.-Socage roll, the roll of those holding under socage tenure-that is, within a soke. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 475 (glo .). Also it ys ordeyned that the charter of the seid cite, with the ij. Socage Rolles , shullen be putt in the comyn cofour. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 376.