Law (a) A right of jurisdiction, specif. a lord's right to entertain cases in his own court and to have jurisdiction over disputes to which his tenants are a party; the right of a lord to his tenants'……

(a) A tenant who holds his land in socage [quot. 1230 may belong to sense (b)]; soke-man mot, a court attended by such tenants; (b) as surname. …