Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Booksat the Clarendon Press, MDCCLXXV. Printed for William Strahan, Thomas Cadell, and Daniel Prince, 1775 |
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Page 79
... SOCAGE , in it's most general and extensive fignifica- tion , seems to denote à tenure by any certain and determinate service . And in this sense it is by our antient writers con- stantly put in oppofition to chivalry , or knight ...
... SOCAGE , in it's most general and extensive fignifica- tion , seems to denote à tenure by any certain and determinate service . And in this sense it is by our antient writers con- stantly put in oppofition to chivalry , or knight ...
Page 89
... socage tenure , as well as in cafe of tenure by knight - fervice : for the ftatutes that relate to this point , and fir Edward Coke's comment on them , fpeak generally of all tenants in capite , without making any diftinction : though ...
... socage tenure , as well as in cafe of tenure by knight - fervice : for the ftatutes that relate to this point , and fir Edward Coke's comment on them , fpeak generally of all tenants in capite , without making any diftinction : though ...
Page 215
... socage estates frequently defcended to all the fons equally , fo lately as when Glanvil " wrote , in the reign of Henry the fecond ; and it is mentioned in the mir- ror as a part of our antient conftitution , that knights ' fees fhould ...
... socage estates frequently defcended to all the fons equally , fo lately as when Glanvil " wrote , in the reign of Henry the fecond ; and it is mentioned in the mir- ror as a part of our antient conftitution , that knights ' fees fhould ...
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