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Chivalry :: Chivalry (n.) A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord..

Feudal :: Feudal (a.) Consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the feudal system..

Tenure :: Tenure (n.) The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate..

Tenure :: Tenure (n.) Manner of holding, in general; as, in absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure..

Burgage :: Burgage (n.) A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft..

Immovable :: Immovable (a.) Not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable, n..

Sorehon :: Sorehon (n.) Formerly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel..

Villain :: Villain (n.) One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant..

Sergeanty :: Sergeanty (n.) Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only..

Cessavit :: Cessavit (n.) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.

Agrarian :: Agrarian (a.) Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens..

Bordage :: Bordage (n.) The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.

Feudtory :: Feudtory (a.) Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title..

Subinfeudation :: Subinfeudation (n.) The granting of lands by inferior lords to their dependents, to be held by themselves by feudal tenure..

Allodially :: Allodially (adv.) By allodial tenure.

Holding :: Holding (n.) A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.

Bockland :: Bockland (n.) Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds..

Blanch Holding :: Blanch holding () A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.

Gavelkind :: Gavelkind (n.) A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent..

Villanage :: Villanage (n.) The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord..

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