Middle English Dictionary Entry
hā̆m-sọ̄̆kne n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hā̆m-sọ̄̆kne n. Also -soken(e, -socne, -socna, -sok, -soka, -soche, ampsoken & homsocna, -sekene, homesokin. |
| Etymology | OE hām-sōcn. Also cp. OI heim-sōkn. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Law (a) The crime of assaulting a person in his own house or dwelling place, or of forceful entry therein; (b) the right to try such offenses, and to levy and collect the fines imposed; also, a fine for such offenses.
Associated quotations
a
- c1120(OE) Leges Hen.I in Liebermann Gesetze 1597 : Hamsocna -- quod domus inuasionem Latine sonat -- fit..extrinsec[i]s uel et intrinsec[i]s accidenciis.
- (1131-55) Doc.in Bateson B.Cust.138 : Pur le greigneur achaisun ke puisse estre, si cum de mort de hume..u hamsokene aparissante.
- (1287) Leet R.Norwich in Seld.Soc.511 : Ricardus le Skynnere fecit ampsoken Radulpho Gyn.
- (1290) Leet R.Norwich in Seld.Soc.540 : Intravit domum Claricie atte Grene in hamsok.
- (1311) in Rec.B.Nottingham 172 : [Robert le Taverner] eam percussit, et male tractavit, et fecit Homesokin.
- (1344) *Anc.Pet.(PRO)SC 8-192.9580 : Phelip þe Muleward..souȝte hamsokne on þe vorseid Jon wiþ wepne adrawe.
- a1350 Ipswich Domesday(1) (Add 25012)94 : Item en chescune pleynte de baterye, saunge treet, hamsokne, ou de autre trespas feet en la dyte vyle de Gippewyz countre la pees.
- c1410(a1387) Legal Gloss.Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)95 : Hamsokene oþer Hamfare, a rese i-made in hous.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)95 : Also in every pleynt of fightyng, debatyng, blooddraught, hamsoken, or other trespas.
- a1475 Legal Gloss.Bokenham MAngl.(Hrl 4011)21 : Hame-sokene or hamefare is a-sawte made yn an howse.
- ?a1475 Legal Gloss.Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)95 : Hamsokne, or Hamfare, þat is, a fray made in an howse.
b
- (1109-11) Cart.Ramsey in RS 79.1241 : Sciatis me..concessisse et confirmasse ecclisiae Sancti Benedicti de Rameseia..infangenethe of, et hamsokne, et grithbriche.
- c1120(OE) Leges Hen.I in Liebermann Gesetze 1556 : Hec sunt iura que rex Anglie solus et super onmes homines habet in terra sua..incendium, hamsocna, forestel, [etc.].
- (1154-64) MSS Verulam in HMC1 : Cum socha et sacha..toll et team, et grithbrice, hamsoche, forsteal.
- (1155) Chart.Hen.II in Hall EME (Hrl Charter 3.B.49)12/9 : Ic keþe eow þet ic hebbe heom geunnon þet hi beon ælc þare lande wurþa..grithbriches & hamsocne & forstalles & infangenesthiafes.
- (1199) Chart.R.PRO1.147 : De wardpeni..forestal, homsocna, hamfar, et de franco plegio.
- (1202) Chart.R.PRO1.15 : Cum soka et sak, et tol et team, et infongenethef et utfongenethef, et hamsok.
- ?1241 Legal Gloss.St.Paul's (StP 11)60a : Hamsokne -- Quite de merci de entree en autri hostel aforce.
- a1275 Legal Gloss.Rothley126 : Homsekene. Hoc est quietus de amerciamentis per magistrum hospiciorum violenter et sine licencia et contra pacem domini regis et quod teneatis placita de hujusmodi transgressione facta in terra vestra in curia vestra.
- a1315 Legal Gloss.Glb.(Glb E.4)207 : Hamsokne. Auer amendes de cely qui entre a force altri maison.
- (1403) Inquis.Hen.IV in BGAS 1864 : Cum soka et saka, thol et theam, infangethef et outfangethef, et hamsoka.