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Homage

Homage [fr. homo, Lat., a man], the most honourable service and

Homage auncestral, where a tenant holds lands of his lord by

Homage jury, a Court in a Court-baron, consisting of tenants that

Resceit of homage, the lord's receiving homage of his tenant at his admission

Liege homage, an acknowledgement which included fealty and the services consequent upon

in the presence of his other vassals, and perfected by homage and fealty; homage being the acknowledgment of tenure, and faculty

Homagio respectuando (respecting of homage), a writ to the escheat or commanding him to deliver

younger sisters ought to hold of the eldest, and do homage to her for their several portions, or of the chief

Co. Litt. 64, (As much as the tenant by his homage owes to his Lord, so much is the Lord, by

the oath of allegiance. Although foreign jurists consider fealty and homage as convertible terms, because in some continental countries they are