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Drengage :: Drengage (n.) The tenure by which a drench held land.

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..

Copy :: Copy (n.) Copyhold; tenure; lease.

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

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

Feudal :: Feudal (a.) Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures..

Lease :: Lease (v. t.) Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.

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..

Vavasory :: Vavasory (n.) The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor; also, the lands held by a vavasor..

Base :: Base (a.) Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant..

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..

Feu :: Feu (n.) A free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money..

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

Frank-fee :: Frank-fee (n.) A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold..

Fee :: Fee (n.) property; possession; tenure.

Fedaliza/tion :: Fedaliza/tion (n.) The act of reducing to feudal tenure.

Farm :: Farm (a. & n.) The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.

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..

Tenure :: Tenure (n.) The consideration, condition, or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land..

Socmanry :: Socmanry (n.) Tenure by socage.

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