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Allodium
noun · 78% connection
Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rent, reserved, grants, land, payment.
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: rent, reserved, grants, land, payment.
Avenage
noun · 78% connection
A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rent, reserved, grants, land, payment.
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: rent, reserved, grants, land, payment.
Avercorn
noun · 78% connection
A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rent, reserved, grants, land, payment.
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: rent, reserved, grants, land, payment.
Blackmail
noun · 78% connection
Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rent, reserved, grants, land, payment.
Cesser
verb · 78% connection
a neglect of a tenant to perform services, or make payment, for two years.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rent, reserved, grants, land, payment.
Cotenant
noun · 78% connection
A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rent, reserved, grants, land, payment.
Desert
verb · 78% connection
To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rent, reserved, grants, land, payment.
Disband
verb · 78% connection
To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rent, reserved, grants, land, payment.
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: rent, reserved, grants, land, payment.
Disruption
noun · 78% connection
The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disru…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rent, reserved, grants, land, payment.
Distrain
verb · 78% connection
To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rent, reserved, grants, land, payment.
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: rent, reserved, grants, land, payment.
Faldfee
noun · 78% connection
A fee or rent paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his own ground.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rent, reserved, grants, land, payment.
Farm
a. & n. · 78% connection
The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rent, reserved, grants, land, payment.
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: rent, reserved, grants, land, payment.
