different between socage vs burgage

English

Alternative forms

• soccage

Etymology

From Middle English sokage, from Anglo-Norman socage, from soc (“soke”) +? -age. More at soke, -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?k?d?/

Noun

socage (countable and uncountable, plural socages)

1. (historical) In the Middle Ages (and chiefly but not exclusively medieval England), a legal system whereby a tenant would pay a rent or do some agricultural work for the landlord.

Translations

Further reading

• socage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Old French

Alternative forms

• soccage
• sokage

Etymology

soc +? -age.

Noun

socage m (oblique plural socages, nominative singular socages, nominative plural socage)

1. socage (system whereby a tenant would pay a rent or do some agricultural work for the landlord)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (socage)
• socage on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??(?)??d??/

Noun

burgage (countable and uncountable, plural burgages)

1. (historical) A medieval tenure in socage under which property in England and Scotland was held under the king or a lord of a town, and was maintained for a yearly rent or for rendering an inferior service (not knight's service) such as watching and warding.