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Mortmain
a dead or unserviceable hand, were prohibited under pain of forfeiture to the lord, the fruits of whose feudal seigniory (the great hinge of government in those days) were thus impaired. But either with or without the
Frank-marriage
on Real Property. An entailed estate in which the donor retains control of land by refusing to accept feudal services from donee (usu. the donor's daughter) for three generation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 669.
Gavelkind
Act, 1925, s. 1, and INFANT. Gavelkind, before A.D. 1066, was the general custom of the realm; the feudal law of primogeniture superseded it. It was retained in Kent, because, according to the historical legend, the Kentish
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Green silver
Green silver, a feudal custom in the manor of Writtel, in Essex, where every tenant whose front door opens to Greenbury shall
Homage
Litt. 64 a, 68 a. The general name of manorial tenants that do homage. See HOMAGE; JURY. In Feudal times, a ceremony that a new tenant per formed for lord to acknowledge tenure, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th
Homagium reddere
solemn declaration of disowning his lord; for which there was a set form and method prescribed by the feudal laws, Bract. 1. 2, c. xxxv., s. 35.
In mortua manu
held by a religious society was described this way because the church could hold property perpetually with-out rendering feudal service, Black's Law Dictio-nary, 7th Edn., p. 791.
Knight-service
Knight-service, formerly the most universal and most honourable species of tenure, being entirely military; a feudal tenure. Abolished by 12 Car 2, c. 24. See TENURE.
Knighthood
Knighthood, the character or dignity of a knight. The union of chivalry with the feudal system, and the decay of both, gave rise to knight-service and the compulsion of landowners to become knights
Liber feudorum
Liber feudorum, a code of the feudal law, compiled by direction of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, and published at Milan, AD 1170.
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