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Manbote :: Manbote (n.) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant)..

Inthrallment :: Inthrallment (n.) Act of inthralling, or state of being inthralled; servitude; bondage; vassalage..

Vassal :: Vassal (n.) A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave.

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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..

Homager :: Homager (n.) One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage; a vassal..

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..

Vassaless :: Vassaless (n.) A female vassal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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