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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..

Subingression :: Subinfeudation (n.) Subordinate tenancy; undertenancy.

Unfeudalize :: Unfeudalize (v. t.) To free from feudal customs or character; to make not feudal.

Feudary :: Feudary (a.) Held by, or pertaining to, feudal tenure..

Relief :: Relief (n.) A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant..

Feudalize :: Feudalize (v. t.) To reduce toa feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism.

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..

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..

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.

Adscript :: Adscript (a.) Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.

Adscript :: Adscript (n.) One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.

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

Zamindar :: Zamindar (n.) A landowner; also, a collector of land revenue; now, usually, a kind of feudatory recognized as an actual proprietor so long as he pays to the government a certain fixed revenue..

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

Extinct :: Extinct (a.) Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law..

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

Feudalizing :: Feudalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feudaliz.

Feudary :: Feudary (n.) A feodary. See Feodary.

Bail :: Bail (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.

Inextinguishable :: Inextinguishable (a.) Not capable of being extinguished; extinguishable; unquenchable; as, inextinguishable flame, light, thirst, desire, feuds..

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