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Attornment
noun · 78% connection
The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: service, formerly, required, tenant, carry.
Average
noun · 78% connection
That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: service, formerly, required, tenant, carry.
Base
adjective · 78% connection
Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: service, formerly, required, tenant, carry.
Carry
verb · 78% connection
To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: service, formerly, required, tenant, carry.
Chivalry
noun · 78% connection
A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: service, formerly, required, tenant, carry.
Copyhold
noun · 78% connection
A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: service, formerly, required, tenant, carry.
Coshering
noun · 78% connection
A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: service, formerly, required, tenant, carry.
Cotenant
noun · 78% connection
A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: service, formerly, required, tenant, carry.
Discontinuance
noun · 78% connection
A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: service, formerly, required, tenant, carry.
Escheat
noun · 78% connection
The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: service, formerly, required, tenant, carry.
Escuage
noun · 78% connection
Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was af…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: service, formerly, required, tenant, carry.
Estrepement
noun · 78% connection
A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: service, formerly, required, tenant, carry.
Fealty
noun · 78% connection
Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: service, formerly, required, tenant, carry.
Feud
noun · 78% connection
A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: service, formerly, required, tenant, carry.
Feudatory
noun · 78% connection
A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: service, formerly, required, tenant, carry.
Greencloth
noun · 78% connection
A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: service, formerly, required, tenant, carry.
Heriot
noun · 78% connection
Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a ten…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: service, formerly, required, tenant, carry.
Homage
noun · 78% connection
A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: service, formerly, required, tenant, carry.
