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Thane

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Thane [fr. thegn, Sax., a servant], an Anglo-Saxon nobleman: an old title of honour, perhaps equivalent to baron. There were two orders of thanes, the king's thanes and the ordinary thanes. Soon after the Conquest this name was disused.

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