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Page 450
... socage , consisted also of free and honourable services ; but such as were liquidated and reduced to an absolute certainty . And this tenure not * 79 ] only subsists to * this day , but has in a manner absorbed and swallowed up ( since ...
... socage , consisted also of free and honourable services ; but such as were liquidated and reduced to an absolute certainty . And this tenure not * 79 ] only subsists to * this day , but has in a manner absorbed and swallowed up ( since ...
Page 451
... socage . ( m ) It was the certainty therefore that denominated it a socage tenure ; and nothing sure could be a greater liberty or privilege , than to have the service ascertained , and not left to the arbitrary calls of the lord , as ...
... socage . ( m ) It was the certainty therefore that denominated it a socage tenure ; and nothing sure could be a greater liberty or privilege , than to have the service ascertained , and not left to the arbitrary calls of the lord , as ...
Page 452
... socage tenure ; ( 0 ) the preservation whereof inviolate from the innova- tions of the Norman conqueror is a fact universally known . And those who thus preserved their liberties were said to hold in free and common socage . As ...
... socage tenure ; ( 0 ) the preservation whereof inviolate from the innova- tions of the Norman conqueror is a fact universally known . And those who thus preserved their liberties were said to hold in free and common socage . As ...
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