Definition of "soccage" []

• Alternative spelling of socage. (noun)

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• "It was that land could be held, not under the seigneurial system of the old French regime, but under the Anglo-Saxon right of free and common soccage, where men were freeholders all."
• "This province they were to hold and possess of the king, his heirs and successors, as of his manor of East Greenwich in Kent, not _in capite_, or by knight's service, but in free and common soccage."
• "At Stamford there was a Presbyterian Church, built in 1791, and another church built for the use of all persuasions, a kind of free and common soccage church, in 1795, which was destroyed in the subsequent war."