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Vavasor. The first name of dignity, next beneath a peer, was anciently that of vidames, vice domini, or valvasors: who are mentioned by our ancient lawyers as viri magn' dignitatis; and Sir Edward Coke speaks highly of them. Yet they are now quite out of use; and our legal antiquaries are not agreed upon even their original or ancient office (1 Bl. Com. 403). And see Comden's Brit.; Reeves, c. 5, p. 26.

The vassal or tenant of a baron, one who held under a baron and also had subtenants, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.