socage: land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service
service: (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him
fall of man: (Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death