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Beneficiary :: Beneficiary (a.) Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession..

Feodal :: Feodal (a.) Feudal. See Feudal.

Feudal :: Feudal (a.) Consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the feudal system..

Villain :: Villain (n.) One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant..

Feoff :: Feoff (v. t.) To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.

Bailey :: Bailey (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle.

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..

Coshering :: Coshering (n.) A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house.

Feudalist :: Feudalist (n.) An upholder of feudalism.

Feoffment :: Feoffment (n.) The grant of a feud or fee.

Feudally :: Feudally (adv.) In a feudal manner.

Roturier :: Roturier (n.) A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land..

Allodium :: Allodium (n.) Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud..

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

Livery :: Livery (n.) The uniform clothing issued by feudal superiors to their retainers and serving as a badge when in military service.

Rerefief :: Rerefief (n.) A fief held of a superior feudatory; a fief held by an under tenant.

Feudalism :: Feudalism (n.) The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.

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..

Castle-guard :: Castle-guard (n.) A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time..

Feod :: Feod (n.) A feud. See 2d Feud.

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