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Fealty

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Fidelity to ones lord the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord the special oath by which this obligation was assumed fidelity to a superior power or to a government loyality It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty as a feudal obligation

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