Note 52 — PART I TERRITORIAL STUDIES

These terms are valuable for their definition of rights. Over the holder of land 'de soco' the lord had (1) 'saca et soca', (2) 'commendatio et (3) servitium'. If the land was thegnland then the Abbot received 'omnem consuetudinem' as well.52 We will first deal with the latter class, those from whom the Abbot received 'consuetudo', and then those who held 'de soca'.