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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Infeodation :: Infeodation (n.) See Infeudation.
Knight :: Knight (n.) In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life..
Feu De Joie :: Feu de joie () A fire kindled in a public place in token of joy; a bonfire; a firing of guns in token of joy.
Feudist :: Feudist (n.) A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law.
Homage :: Homage (n.) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign..
Livery :: Livery (n.) The uniform clothing issued by feudal superiors to their retainers and serving as a badge when in military service.
Baron :: Baron (n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount..
Feudalist :: Feudalist (n.) An upholder of feudalism.
Defeudalize :: Defeudalize (v. t.) To deprive of the feudal character or form.
Curia :: Curia (n.) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.
Adscript :: Adscript (a.) Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.
Foliomort :: Foliomort (a.) See Feuillemort.
Feodatory :: Feodatory (n.) See Feudatory.
Feudary :: Feudary (n.) A tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory.
Vassalage :: Vassalage (n.) The state of being a vassal, or feudatory..
Feuillants :: Feuillants (n. pl.) A reformed branch of the Bernardines, founded in 1577 at Feuillans, near Toulouse, in France..
Subingression :: Subinfeudation (n.) Subordinate tenancy; undertenancy.
Extinct :: Extinct (a.) Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law..
Feudalizing :: Feudalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feudaliz.
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..
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