Feudally - Law Dictionary Search Results
Seigniorage
a percentage on bullion brought to a mint for coining; and (ii) something claimed by a monarch or feudal lord as a prerogative, Divisional Forest Officer v. Tata Finlay Ltd., AIR 2001 SC 2672. [See Kerala Grants
fealty
Fidelity to ones lord the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord the special oath
Freehold
phrase 'tenure in free socage,' and the only free lay-mode of holding property. It is derived from the feudal system, but the services connected with it were honourable and mild. The annihilation of the feudal severities has
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Benefice
ecclesiastical living and promotion, a rectory or vicarage: all church preferments except bishoprics; also a fief in the feudal system. See s. 13(1) of the (English) Benefices Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. C. 48). The (English)
VerbarSamurai
In the former feudal system of Japan the class or a member of the class of military retainers of the daimios constituting
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 Gavelkind, before A.D. 1066, was the general custom of the realm; the feudal law of primogeniture superseded it.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
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.
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