Usually means: Land unit for knight's service.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. knight's fee: Merriam-Webster
  2. knight's fee: Wordnik
  3. knight's fee: Wiktionary
  4. Knight's fee: Dictionary.com
  5. Knight's Fee (novel), Knight's fee: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Knight's fee: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. Knights Fee: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. KNIGHT'S FEE: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Knight's fee: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (knight's fee)

noun:  (law, historical) A kind of land tenure requiring military service to the land's chief lord as an obligation to maintain possession.
noun:  (law, historical) The specific amount of land giving rise to such requirements generally, being sometimes a hide or less and sometimes six or more hides.


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