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Fealty

Fealty [fr. fidelitas, Lat.; feaulte, Fr.], the special oath of fidelity

is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty as a feudal obligation

and incidents are by general customs annexed to copyholds:' (1) Fealty, but the oath of fealty is now generally respited. (2)

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Feodality, fealty. See FEALTY.

acknowledgment made by the tenant to the lord of his fealty or tenure. It must always be a profit, yet there

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

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

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

Homage could only be done to the lord himself, but fealty might to his steward or bailiff, Co. Litt. 64 a,

of procreation. The donees are liable to no service except fealty, and a reserved rent would be void until the fourth

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