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Mirth makes them not mad ; 
Nor sobriety sad. Denham. 
SOC, s. [)'oc. Sax. In hoc differebant inter se sac et 
soc; quod istud, nempe sac, privilegium erat, sive potestas, 
cognoscendi causas et lites dirimendi; hasc autem, nempe 
soc, territorium, sive prsecinctus, in quo saca et csetera pri¬ 
vilege exercebantur: Soc, curia: Sac, causarum in ipsa 
curia cognitio. Hickesi] —Jurisdiction ; circuit or place 
where a lord has the power or liberty of holding a court of 
his tenants, and administering justice.—The said Robert le 
Fitz-Walter—hath a soke [soc] in the City of London :—if 
any thief shall be taken in his soke, he ought to have his 
stocks and imprisonment in his soke. Blount.- —Liberty or 
privilege of tenants excused from customary burthens. 
Cowel. —An exclusive privilege claimed by millers of grind¬ 
ing all the corn which is used within the manor or town¬ 
ship, wherein their mill stands. Some trials at law relative 
to this ancient privilege have lately taken place; but the 
millers have generally been cast. Marshall’s Yorkshire. 
Grose. 
SOC, Sok, or Soka, in Law, denotes jurisdiction; or 
a power or privilege to administer justice, and execute 
laws. 
The word is also used for the shire, circuit or territory, 
in which such power is exercised by him endued with such 
jurisdiction. 
Hence, also, the law Latin soca, used for a seignory or 
lordship infranchised by the king with liberty of holding a 
court of his soc-men or socagers, that is, his tenants; whose 
tenure is hence called socage. 
SOCAGE, or Soccage, in its most extensive significa¬ 
tion, seems to denote a tenure by any certain and determi¬ 
nate service. And thus, our ancient writers constantly put 
it in opposition to chivalry or knight-service, where the 
render was uncertain. 
Thus Bracton, if a man holds by a rent in money, with¬ 
out any escuage or seijeanty, id tenementum did potest 
socagium. Littleton also defines it to be, where the tenant 
holds his tenement of the lord by any certain service in lieu 
of all other services, so that they be not services of chivalry 
or knight-service: therefore, he tells us, that whatsoever is 
not tenure of chivalry is tenure in socage. The service must 
therefore be certain, in order to denominate it socage; as to 
hold by fealty and 20s. rent; or by homage, fealty and 20 s. 
rent ; or by homage and fealty, without rent; or by fealty 
and certain corporal services, as ploughing the lord’s land 
for three days; or by fealty only, without any other service; 
for all these are tenures in socage. Sea Soccage. 
SOCAIBAMBA, a lake of Peru, in the province of Canta, 
whence rises the river Carabaillo. 
SOCANDAGA, or Sagendaga, the west branch of 
Hudson’s river, which runs a south and south-east course, 
and about 15 miles from its mouth takes a north-east direc¬ 
tion, and joins that river about 13 or 14 miles west-by-north 
of Fort Edward. 
SO'CCAGE, s. [soc, French, a ploughshare; soccagium, 
barbarous Latin.] In law, is a tenure of lands for certain 
inferior or husbandly services to be performed to the lord of 
the fee. All services due to land being knight’s service, or 
sdccage; so that whatever is not knight’s service, is soccage. 
This soccage is of three kinds; a soccage of free tenure, 
where a man holdeth by free service of twelve pence a year 
for all manner of services. Soccage of ancient tenure is of 
land of ancient demesne, where no writ original shall be 
sued, but the writ secundum consuetudinem manor i. Soc¬ 
cage of base tenure is where those that hold it may have 
none other writ but the monstraverunt; and such socmen 
hold not by certain service. Cowel. —The lands are not 
holden at all of her Majesty, or not holden in chief, but by 
a mean tenure in soccage, or by knight’s service. Bacon. 
SO'CCAGER, s. A tenant by soccage. 
SOCCAVO, a small town in the neighbourhood of Na¬ 
ples, with 1300 inhabitants. 
SOCCELLI, among the Romans, were swaths or bands, 
■which covered the leg down to the soccus. 
SOCCUS, or Sock, a kind of high shoe, reaching above 
the ankle, worn by the actors in the ancient drama, in the 
representation of comic characters. 
The soccus was much lower than the cothurnus, and was 
the distinguishing wear of the comedians; as the cothurnus 
was of the tragedians; hence soccus is frequently used for 
comedy itself. 
SOCHA, a settlement of New Granada, in the province 
of Tunja. Population 100 house-keepers, and 70 Indians; 
36 miles north-east of Tunja. 
SOCIABI'LITY, s. Sociableness.—He introduceth the 
system of human sociability, by showing it to be the dictate 
of the Creator. Warburton. 
SO'CIABLE, adj. [sociable, Fr., sociabilis, Lat.] Fit 
to be conjoined.—Another law toucheth them as they are 
sociable parts united into one body; a law which bindeth 
them each to serve unto other’s good, and all to prefer the 
good of the whole before whatsoever their own particular. 
Hooker. —Ready to unite in a general interest. 
To make man wild, and sociable to man; 
To cultivate the wild licentious savage 
With wisdom, discipline. Addison, 
Friendly; familiar; conversible. 
Them thus employ’d, beheld 
With pity heaven’s high King, and to him call’d 
Raphael, the sociable spirit, that deign’d 
To travel with Tobias. Milton. 
Inclined to company.—In children much solitude and 
silence I like not, nor any thing born before his time, as this 
must needs be in that sociable and exposed age. Wotton. 
SO'CIABLE, s. A kind of less exalted phaeton, with 
two seats facing each other, and a box for the driver. Ala- 
son. 
SO'CIABLENESS, s. Inclination to company and con¬ 
verse. 
Such as would call her friendship love, and feign 
To sociableness a name profane. Donne 
The two main properties of man are contemplation and 
sociableness, or love of converse. More. —Freedom of 
conversation; good fellowship.—He always used courtesy 
and modesty, disliked of none; sometimes sociableness and 
fellowship well lik’d by many. Hayward. 
SO'CIABLY, adv. Conversibly; as a companion. 
Yet not terrible, 
That I should fear; nor sociably mild. 
As Raphael, that I should much confide; 
But solemn and sublime. Milton. 
SO'CIAL, adj. [socialis, Lat.] Relating to a general or 
public interest; relating to society.—To love our neigh¬ 
bour as ourselves is such a fundamental truth for regulating 
human society, that by that alone one might determine all 
the cases in social morality. Locke. —True self-love and 
social are the same. Pope. —Easy to mix in friendly 
gaiety; companionable. 
Withers, adieu! yet not with thee remove 
Thy martial spirit or thy social love. Pope. 
Consisting in union or converse with another. 
Thou in thy secrecy although alone, 
Best with thyself accompany’d, seek’st not 
Social communication. Alilton. 
SOCIA'LITY, s. Socialness.—The progress of sociality. 
Sterne. —A scene of perfectly easy sociality. Boswell. 
SO'CIALLY, adv. In a social way. 
SO'CIALNESS, s. The quality of being social. 
SOCI'ETY, s. [societe, Fr., societas, Lat.] Union of 
many in one general interest.—If the power of one society 
extend likewise to the making of laws for another society, 
as if the church could make laws for the state in temporals; 
or the state make laws binding the church, relating to spi¬ 
rituals, then is that society entirely subject to the other. 
Leslie.— Numbers united in one interest; community.—As 
