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Socman

Socman \Soc"man\, n.; pl. Socmen. [See Socage.] (O. Eng. Law) One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager.
--Cowell.

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socman

n. (context UK legal obsolete English) One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager.

Usage examples of "socman".

Above all, the owner of the soil could still hold his head high as the veritable Socman of Minstead--that is, as holding the land in free socage, with no feudal superior, and answerable to no man lower than the king.

Some day, perchance, in joust or in tourney, knight may wish to wear my colors, and then I shall tell him that if he does indeed crave my favor there is wrong unredressed, and the wronger the Socman of Minstead.