† port-ˈsoken Old Law. Obs.
[f. port n.2 + soken.]
The jurisdiction of a port or town; hence, spec. the district outside a city or borough, over which its jurisdiction extended. Also attrib.
| [a 1189 Charter of Hen. II to Canterbury in Somner Gavelkind (1660) 135 Infra urbem, & in Portsoka. 1200 Rot. Chart. (1837) 45/2 Carta Norhamton. Sciatis nos concessisse burgensibus nostris de Norhamton..quietantiam murdri infra burgem et portsoka.] 1224 Hen. III Charter to City of London in Coke Instit. iv. (1648) 252 Quod infra muros civitatis, neque in portesokne nemo capiat hospitium per vim. [a 1272 Charter of Hen. III in Somner Gavelkind (1660) 135 Nullus de civitate vel Portsoka sua.] 1660 Somner Gavelkind 135 Portsoken, being..I take it, the same, which at this day is known there by the name of Portsoken-Ward..but in some ancient Charters of Liberties..you may find it spreading it self to the utmost skirts and liberties of the City without the wals. 1701 Manley Cowell's Interpr., Portsokne, the Soke or Liberties of any Port, i.e. City, or Town... Quietantiam murdri infra urbem & in Portsokne, i.e. within the..City, and the Liberties without the Walls. |