Knight Errant - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: knight errantKnight errant
A wandering knight a knight who traveled in search of adventures for the purpose of exhibiting military skill prowess and generosity...
Knight er ratic
Pertaining to a knight errant or to knight errantry...
Paladin
A knight errant a distinguished champion as the paladins of Charlemagne...
Bailiff-errant
Bailiff-errant, a bailiff's deputy. See OUTRIDERS....
Errant
Errant [itinerant], applied to justices on circuit, and bailiffs at large, etc. see EYRE....
Nonvidentur qui errant consentire
Nonvidentur qui errant consentire.-(They do not appear to consent who commit a mistake.) See Broom's Leg. Max....
Knightly
Of or pertaining to a knight becoming a knight chivalrous as a knightly combat a knightly spirit...
Knight
Knight, a title of honour; when used simply, denoting a knight bachelor, who does not belong to any Order of Knighthood. It entitles the person on whom it is conferred to be styled 'Sir,' and his wife 'Dame.' The recognised courtesy title of Lady'is, however, almost universally adopted for the wife of knight bachelor. A knight is now made by the sovereign touching him with a sword as he kneels, and saying, 'Rise, Sir',' or by Letters Patent. See Halsbury's Laws of England.'...
Knight's fee
Knight's fee [feodum militare, Lat.], twelve plough-lands, the value of which was 20l. per annum (2 Inst. 596). By the grant of a knight's fee, land, meadow, and pasture may pass as parcel of it, and even a manor if it is usually called so. Consult Shep. Touch. 92, 93. Selden contends that it was as much as the king was pleased to grant upon condition of having the service of a knight, Tit. Of Hon., p. ii., c. v., ss. 17, 26. See TENURE....
Knights of the Garter
Knights of the Garter [equites garterii, vel periscelidis, Lat.], otherwise called Knights of the Order of St. George. This order was founded by Richard I., and improved by Edward III., A.D. 1344. They form the highest order of knights. See GARTER....
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