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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.

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

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

Vassal :: Vassal (a.) Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.

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

Attornment :: Attornment (n.) The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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..

Freeborn :: Freeborn (a.) Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom.

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..

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

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