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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..

Vassal :: Vassal (v. t.) To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.

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..

Homage :: Homage (n.) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign..

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

Vassal :: 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..

Fine :: Fine (n.) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal..

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..

Vassalage :: Vassalage (n.) Valorous service, such as that performed by a vassal; valor; prowess; courage..

Vavasor :: Vavasor (n.) The vassal or tenant of a baron; one who held under a baron, and who also had tenants under him; one in dignity next to a baron; a title of dignity next to a baron..

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

Vassalry :: Vassalry (n.) The body of vassals.

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..

Liege :: Liege (a.) Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject..

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

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..

Vassalage :: Vassalage (n.) Vassals, collectively; vassalry..

Freeman :: Freeman (n.) One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal..

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..

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