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Fealty

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Feodality

Feodality, fealty. See FEALTY.

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Foy

Faith allegiance fealty

Copyhold

not give effect to them. The following services and incidents are by general customs annexed to copyholds:' (1) Fealty, but the oath of fealty is now generally respited. (2) Suit of Court, for every copyholder is bound

Rent

possession during the term; and secondly, as an acknowledgment made by the tenant to the lord of his fealty or tenure. It must always be a profit, yet there is no necessity that it should be, as

Fidem mentiri

Fidem mentiri, when a tenant does not keep that fealty which he has sworn to the lord, Leg. Hen. 1, c. 53.

Regalia facere

Regalia facere, to do homage or fealty to the sovereign by a bishop when he is invested with the regalia.

Liege homage

Liege homage, an acknowledgement which included fealty and the services consequent upon it, 1 Br. & Had. Com. 442

Homage

lord the King.' The lord then kissed him. Homage could only be done to the lord himself, but fealty might to his steward or bailiff, Co. Litt. 64 a, 68 a. The general name of manorial tenants

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