soke

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Again, if any traitor were taken within his soke or jurisdiction, it was his right to sentence him to death, the manner of death being that the convicted person should be tied to a post in the Thames at the Wood Wharf, and remain there during two tides and two ebbs.

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  1. noun In early English law, the right of local jurisdiction, generally one of the feudal rights of lordship.
  2. noun The district over which soke jurisdiction was exercised.

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  • Did I hear that the ICC is at your feet, that they will either soke their indictment in water and drink it.
  • It is here clear that someone will soke his threats in water and drink it.
  • This was the first time I actually soke with an Iraniam woman so I was in unknown territory. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Again, if any traitor were taken within his soke or jurisdiction, it was his right to sentence him to death, the manner of death being that the convicted person should be tied to a post in the Thames at the Wood Wharf, and remain there during two tides and two ebbs. —  London and the Kingdom - Volume I
  • They continued to transact their business in the English language The local jurisdictions of thegns who had grants of sac and soke or who exercised judicial functions among their free neighbors were now called "manors" under their new owners, who conducted a manor court The Conquerer's Royal Court was called the "Curia Regis". —  Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed.
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  1. Middle English, from Medieval Latin sōca, from Old English sōcn, act of seeking; see sāg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also soc; from Middle English soke, sok (Anglo-French soc, Middle Latin soca), the exercise of judicial power, a franchise, land held by socage, from AS, sōc, jurisdiction, literally inquiry or investigation, from sacan (preterit sōc), contend, litigate, later sacu, a contention, a lawsuit, hence in old law sac, the power of hearing suits and administering justice within a certain precinct: see sac, sake. The words soke and soken are practically identical in orig. sense, but are to be kept separate, being different forms. Soc is the Anglo-French (Law F.) form of soke, which is itself a Middle English form archaically preserved (like bote, mote). The modern form would be sook, as the modern form of bote is boot, and that of mote is moot.
 

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