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wars, to do him some special, certain, and honorary service in person, as to be marshal of his host, or high steward of England, or to carry his banner or his sword, or to be his butler, … be done. And this is the groundwork of the feudal system, which displaced the laws obtaining in this country at the time of the Norman Conquest. Out of feudalism arose the maxim, that all lands in this