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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.

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

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

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

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..

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..

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..

Manrent :: Manrent (n.) Homage or service rendered to a superior, as to a lord; vassalage..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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