soc and sac
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Etymology edit
From Old English sōcen and sacan, equivalent to the Anglo-Norman oyer and terminer.
Noun edit
soc and sac (uncountable)
- (UK, law, historical) The right of a lord to hear and decide legal cases on his estate without recourse to other courts.
- 1806, Francis Bloomfield, An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, Vol. IV, p. 517:
- King John granted to the prior and convent, in all their manors and lands, sac, soc, tol, and theam, infangenthef, and outfangenthef, with the ordeals or judgment by fire, water, and iron, and a common gallows in each manor; with a view of frankenpledge, and assize of bread and ale, of all their tenants […]
- 1806, Francis Bloomfield, An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, Vol. IV, p. 517:
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References edit
- “soc”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.