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Feudatory :: Feudatory (n.) A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.

Felony :: Felony (n.) An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture.

Vassalage :: Vassalage (n.) Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks..

Ban :: Ban (n.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army..

Fealty :: Fealty (n.) Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation..

Aid :: Aid (v. t.) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions.

Vassalage :: Vassalage (n.) A territory held in vassalage.

Beneficiary :: Beneficiary (n.) A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds..

Terrier :: Terrier (n.) Formerly, a collection of acknowledgments of the vassals or tenants of a lordship, containing the rents and services they owed to the lord, and the like..

Antrustion :: Antrustion (n.) A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprise.

Banneret :: Banneret (n.) Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank..

Bond :: Bond (n.) A vassal or serf; a slave.

Inthrall :: Inthrall (v. t.) To reduce to bondage or servitude; to make a thrall, slave, vassal, or captive of; to enslave..

Vassalage :: Vassalage (n.) The state of being a vassal, or feudatory..

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..

Enfeoff :: Enfeoff (v. t.) To give in vassalage; to make subservient.

Attorn :: Attorn (v. t.) To turn, or transfer homage and service, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate..

Man :: Man (n.) An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject..

Envassal :: Envassal (v. t.) To make a vassal of.

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