Definition of feu

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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..

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Arriere-ban :: Arriere-ban (n.) A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France..
Infeudation :: Infeudation (n.) The granting of tithes to laymen.
Feodal :: Feodal (a.) Feudal. See Feudal.
Feudally :: Feudally (adv.) In a feudal manner.
Suzerainty :: Suzerain (n.) A superior lord, to whom fealty is due; a feudal lord; a lord paramount..
Feudatories :: Feudatories (pl. ) of Feudator.
Unfeudalize :: Unfeudalize (v. t.) To free from feudal customs or character; to make not feudal.
Feudataty :: Feudataty (a. & n.) See 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.
Vidame :: Vidame (n.) One of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later erected their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles..
Feudalizing :: Feudalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feudaliz.
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..
Curia :: Curia (n.) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.
Feudist :: Feudist (n.) A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law.
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..
Lord :: Lord (n.) One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor..
Castle-guard :: Castle-guard (n.) A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time..
Unke :: Unke (n.) A European aquatic toad (Bombinator igneus). Its back is dark; its belly is marked with crimson. Called also feuerkrote.
Feodatory :: Feodatory (n.) See Feudatory.
Defeudalize :: Defeudalize (v. t.) To deprive of the feudal character or form.
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