Definition of vassal

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Vassal (n.) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant..

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Drench :: Drench (n.) A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.
Man :: Man (n.) An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject..
Inthrallment :: Inthrallment (n.) Act of inthralling, or state of being inthralled; servitude; bondage; vassalage..
Vassalage :: Vassalage (n.) Valorous service, such as that performed by a vassal; valor; prowess; courage..
Vassal :: Vassal (v. t.) To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
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..
Bond :: Bond (n.) A vassal or serf; a slave.
Weregild :: Weregild (n.) The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer..
Beneficiary :: Beneficiary (n.) A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds..
Aid :: Aid (v. t.) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions.
Antrustion :: Antrustion (n.) A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprise.
Vassalage :: Vassalage (n.) Vassals, collectively; vassalry..
Vassal :: Vassal (n.) A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave.
Fine :: Fine (n.) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal..
Homager :: Homager (n.) One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage; a vassal..
Freeborn :: Freeborn (a.) Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom.
Manrent :: Manrent (n.) Homage or service rendered to a superior, as to a lord; vassalage..
Felony :: Felony (n.) An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture.
Feud :: Feud (n.) A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee..
Vassalage :: Vassalage (n.) The state of being a vassal, or feudatory..
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