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Attornment :: Attornment (n.) The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord..

Vassal :: Vassal (n.) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant..

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

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..

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

Feudary :: Feudary (n.) A tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory.

Feudtory :: Feudtory (a.) Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title..

Feudataty :: Feudataty (a. & n.) See Feudatory.

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

Feodatory :: Feodatory (n.) See Feudatory.

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