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Definition of Socagers
1. socager [n] - See also: socager
Lexicographical Neighbors of Socagers
Literary usage of Socagers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Law of Primogeniture in England and Its Effect Upon by Courtney Stanhope Kenny (1878)
"The unusual predominance of socagers among the freeholders who declared ...
Nay, when the socagers themselves accepted demesne land in villein tenure, ..."
2. The Law of Real Property in England: A Course of Lectures Delivered at the by George Wood Hill (1898)
"In those manors there sprung up a class of tenants called free socagers. ...
These free socagers grew in number. It was a very pleasant sort of tenancy. ..."
3. History of English Literature by Henri Van Laun, Hippolyte Taine (1871)
"A greater number became socagers, that is, free proprietors, burdened with a ...
Such men, even though fallen to the condition of socagers, even sunk into ..."
4. The Continental Legal History Series by Association of American Law Schools (1915)
"In England, the free "socagers," or yeomen, were not proprietors, but had a more
... The free socagers have disappeared as also most of the copyholders. ..."
5. The History of the Law of Primogeniture in England and Its Effect Upon by Courtney Stanhope Kenny (1878)
"The unusual predominance of socagers among the freeholders who declared ...
Nay, when the socagers themselves accepted demesne land in villein tenure, ..."
6. The Law of Real Property in England: A Course of Lectures Delivered at the by George Wood Hill (1898)
"In those manors there sprung up a class of tenants called free socagers. ...
These free socagers grew in number. It was a very pleasant sort of tenancy. ..."
7. History of English Literature by Henri Van Laun, Hippolyte Taine (1871)
"A greater number became socagers, that is, free proprietors, burdened with a ...
Such men, even though fallen to the condition of socagers, even sunk into ..."
8. The Continental Legal History Series by Association of American Law Schools (1915)
"In England, the free "socagers," or yeomen, were not proprietors, but had a more
... The free socagers have disappeared as also most of the copyholders. ..."
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