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Agrarian
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of R…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: deprive, principal, gavelkind, tenure, lands.
Astrict
verb · 78% connection
To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: deprive, principal, gavelkind, tenure, lands.
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: deprive, principal, gavelkind, tenure, lands.
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: deprive, principal, gavelkind, tenure, lands.
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: deprive, principal, gavelkind, tenure, lands.
Bockland
noun · 78% connection
Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of ten…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: deprive, principal, gavelkind, tenure, lands.
Borough-English
noun · 78% connection
A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the own…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: deprive, principal, gavelkind, tenure, lands.
Burgage
noun · 78% connection
A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services re…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: deprive, principal, gavelkind, tenure, lands.
Castle-guard
noun · 78% connection
A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: deprive, principal, gavelkind, tenure, lands.
Cessavit
noun · 78% connection
A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: deprive, principal, gavelkind, tenure, lands.
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: deprive, principal, gavelkind, tenure, lands.
Coextension
noun · 78% connection
The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: deprive, principal, gavelkind, tenure, lands.
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: deprive, principal, gavelkind, tenure, lands.
Cornage
noun · 78% connection
Anancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: deprive, principal, gavelkind, tenure, lands.
Cotenant
noun · 78% connection
A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: deprive, principal, gavelkind, tenure, lands.
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: deprive, principal, gavelkind, tenure, lands.
Equivocal
adjective · 78% connection
(Literally, called equally one thing or the other; hence:) Having two significations equally applicable; capable of double interpretat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: deprive, principal, gavelkind, tenure, lands.
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: deprive, principal, gavelkind, tenure, lands.