What's the difference between socage and soke?

Socage


Definition:

  • (n.) A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It abounds in such terms as wainage , amercement , socage , novel disseisin , mort d’ancestor and distraint .

Soke


Definition:

  • (n.) See Soc.
  • (n.) One of the small territorial divisions into which Lincolnshire, England, is divided.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A pilot experiment with heifer heat synchronization with chlorsuperlutin-soked intravaginal tampons was conducted with 254 heifers in six herds in the North Moravian region.
  • (2) When the Lord Mayor visits Portsoken this evening to talk about moral leadership in public life maybe she will recall that its name is an Anglo Saxon word that combines the meaning of "port" or town with that of "soke", a voting district.

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