adj
Held to service as attached to the soil; said of feudal serfs.
n
(historical) A medieval fief, which a liege lord received then subsequently enfeoffed wholly or partially to a vassal or vassals.
n
(countable, law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
n
Anything held allodially.
n
One who holds allodial land.
n
One who holds an allodium.
n
The holder of an allodium.
n
a title given to a royal officer charged with the duty of distributing alms or bounty on behalf of a monarch
n
Alternative form of allod [(historical) Allodium.]
adj
Alternative form of allodial [(usually historical) Pertaining to land owned by someone absolutely, without any feudal obligations; held without acknowledgement of any superior; allodial title.]
n
Alternative form of allodialist [One who holds allodial land.]
adv
Alternative form of allodially [By allodial tenure.]
n
Alternative form of allodium [(dated or historical) Freehold land or property; land held in allodial tenure, or one's title to such land.]
n
(historical) A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises.
n
(historical) A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.
n
(rare, historical) A feudal right or obligation, especially the obligation for a peasant to grind grain at the lord's mill, or the profits accruing from such rights.
n
(feudal law) An estate in lands; a fief.
adj
Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession.
n
(law, obsolete) A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out.
n
(historical) A person ranking below villeins and above serfs in the social hierarchy of a manor, holding just enough land to feed a family (about five acres) and required to provide labour on the demesne on specified days of the week.
n
(historical, Britain, law) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behaviour of each other.
n
A headborough; a borsholder.
n
(historical, law) Synonym of tithingman: the head of a tithing.
n
(now historical) The right to rations at court, granted to the king's household, attendants etc.
n
A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.
n
(Scotland, law, historical) In the feudal law of Scotland, any emolument arising to the superior depending on uncertain events: those of nonentry, relief or composition, and escheat alone remaining, but considerably modified by the Conveyancing Act of 1874.
n
(historical) The division of the produce of land, the right of the feudal lord.
n
(historical) A sharecropping tenant farmer of the late Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages.
n
Unpaid labor required by a feudal lord.
n
A survey of a medieval English manor, listing each tenant and the customs under which the tenancy was held.
n
(historical) In medieval Europe, an act of ritualized submission and request for mercy, performed before a monarch or other feudal lord.
n
(historical, derogatory) A royalist in the First English Civil War (1642-1646).
n
(obsolete, Britain, law) A demesne, especially the ancient demesne claimed by William the Conqueror.
n
A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.
n
The supposed right of the feudal lord to deflower the maiden bride of one of his subjects.
n
Alternative form of droit de seigneur [The supposed right of the feudal lord to deflower the maiden bride of one of his subjects.]
n
(historical) In feudalism, the legal interest or rights of a lord or superior in an estate in land held in fee, as opposed to the vassal's or tenant's interest.
n
One who holds lands by emphyteusis.
n
(Ireland, historical) The honour price ascribed to an individual as a measure of his/her status, recorded in the early Irish Law tracts. It had to be paid for any major offence committed against an individual, e.g. murder, satire, serious injury, refusal of hospitality, theft, violation of protection, etc.
n
(Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
n
Fidelity to one's lord or master; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord.
n
Obsolete form of feodary. [An accomplice.]
n
(law, historical) An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of performance of certain services, typically military service.
n
Alternative form of Vehm (“tribunal system of the Middle Ages”) [(historical) A Westphalian "proto-vigilante" tribunal system during the Middle Ages.]
n
Obsolete form of feud. (estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service) [A state of long-standing mutual hostility.]
n
Alternative form of feudality [The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.]
n
Obsolete form of feodary. [An accomplice.]
adj
Obsolete spelling of feudatory [Relating to feudalism, feudal.]
n
A vassal holding a fief.
n
(law) The grant of a feud or fee.
n
Alternative form of feorm-fultum [(Anglo-Saxon) In Anglo-Saxon law, a tax for the king's sustentation as he went through his realm.]
v
(Scotland, law, transitive) To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure.
n
(Scotland, property law, historical) Money payable by the tenant of a feu to the feudal superior.
n
Alternative form of feu duty. [(Scotland, property law, historical) Money payable by the tenant of a feu to the feudal superior.]
n
(Scotland, property law, historical) One who holds a feu.
n
An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service.
adj
Of, or relating to feudalism.
n
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see feudal, law.
n
A lord in a feudal system, one who bestows fiefs on vassals in exchange for homage, fealty, and obligations of personal services or rent.
n
A social system based on personal ownership of resources and personal fealty between a suzerain (lord) and a vassal (subject). Defining characteristics are direct ownership of resources, personal loyalty, and a hierarchical social structure reinforced by religion.
n
The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.
n
The introduction of a feudal system.
adj
Held by, or relating to, feudal tenure.
adj
Alternative form of feudatory [Relating to feudalism, feudal.]
adj
Relating to feudalism, feudal.
n
(philately) any of the Indian feudal states which operated their own internal postal services during the time of the British Empire, issuing stamps that were only valid within the state.
n
A writer about feuds; a person versed in feudal law.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a feud.
n
Alternative form of feu duty. [(Scotland, property law, historical) Money payable by the tenant of a feu to the feudal superior.]
n
(law, ancient Rome) the beneficiary of a fideicommissum.
adj
Of or relating to fidejussion.
n
(figuratively) Synonym of estate: any land, when considered as a region over which the owner exercises lordly control.
n
(countable) A fief (that is held), a landholding.
n
The state of owing one's service (particularly of a soldier, warrior, knight, rider) to a king, queen, or other ruler.
n
(feudal law) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
n
(law, historical, UK) Land held in villeinage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and taken back at his discretion.
adj
(obsolete) Describing the service owed to the superior of one's feudal lord.
n
(Britain, Shetland and Orkney) The jurisdiction of a foud.
n
(UK, historical) A form of land tenure in return for religious duty or service.
n
Alternative form of frankalmoign [(UK, historical) A form of land tenure in return for religious duty or service.]
n
(historical) A freeholder, especially as belonging to a class of landowners in the 14th and 15th century ranking at the bottom of the gentry.
n
A place where justice is administered.
n
(historical) In early Anglo-Saxon times, an army that was mobilized from freemen to defend their shire, or from select representatives to join a royal expedition.
n
(historical) A retainer; vassal; one who holds lands of a superior either by service or payment of rent.
n
(law, historical) A kind of land tenure by serjeanty (i.e., requiring personal service other than military service) direct from a lord paramount, typically the king.
n
(law) In Old English law, tenants who held land by the service of repairing or defending a church or monument, whereby they were exempted from feudal and military services.
n
Alternative form of heritor [A person who inherits; an heir or heiress.]
n
(law, Scotland) A proprietor or landholder in a parish.
n
(medieval English law) Tenants who held land by the service of repairing or defending a church or monument and were therefore exempt from feudal and military duties; specifically, the caretakers of the body of St Cuthbert.
n
(historical) In feudalism, the formal oath of a vassal to honor his or her lord's rights.
n
One who pays feudal homage, hence a vassal.
n
(feudal law) a seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended
n
(historical, law) A privilege of some feudal lords permitting them to execute summary judgment upon thieves captured within their estates, sometimes restricted to the lord's tenants or men and sometimes limited to those caught in flagrante delicto.
n
(law) Alternative form of infeudation [The act, under the feudal system, of putting someone into possession of a fee or fief; enfeoffment.]
v
(transitive, Middle Ages) To invest (someone) with feudal powers.
n
The act, under the feudal system, of putting someone into possession of a fee or fief; enfeoffment.
n
(law, historical) A kind of land tenure requiring military service to the land's chief lord as an obligation to maintain possession.
n
(historical) A feudal lord in Scottish contexts.
n
A Landowning upper class. Most of them were the nobility and the landed gentry.
n
(obsolete) The status or doings of a landlord.
n
(historical) A vassal or tenant in the early Middle Ages.
adj
Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, such as a vassal to his lord; faithful.
n
The status of being a liege.
adj
Synonym of liege; serving an independent sovereign or master; faithful like a vassal to his liege.
n
A male vassal (subject of a sovereign or lord).
n
(historical) A feudal tenant holding his manor directly of the king
n
(law, historical) Alternative form of mesne lord [(law, historical) A lord entitled to rent or feudal obligations from tenants but who himself owes rent or feudal obligations to another.]
n
(law, historical) The feudal lord of a manor estate.
n
(law, historical) A lord holding land under allodial title and owing no rent or feudal obligations to another.
n
In Uganda, a land tenure system similar to freehold, in which political nobles were accredited land at the start of the 20th century, and passed it on hereditarily, without possibility of the ownership being contested.
n
A district over which a feudal lord could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe.
n
(now historical) Vassals collectively; the men a feudal lord can call upon in wartime.
n
The right of the lord of the fee to dispose of the heiress, later also of the male heir, in marriage.
n
(law, historical) The position or land of a mesne lord.
n
(law, historical) A lord entitled to rent or feudal obligations from tenants but who himself owes rent or feudal obligations to another.
n
(historical) A serf or bondsman born into servitude.
n
(Scotland, law, historical) The casualty or advantage which formerly fell to the superior when the heir of a deceased vassal failed to renew the investiture, the superior being then entitled to the rent of the feu.
n
(law, historical) Among the early and medieval Teutonic peoples, especially Scandinavians, the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or kindred of freeborn tribesmen.
adj
Inheriting land by odal.
n
(historical) A system of heritable freehold property rights to odal land.
n
Alternative form of udaller [One who holds property by udal, or allodial, right.]
n
A man having odal, or able to share in it by inheritance.
n
(historical, law, properly, rare) A privilege of some feudal lords permitting them to execute summary judgment upon thieves (particularly their own tenants) captured outside their estates and to keep any chattels forfeited upon conviction.
n
(historical) A feudal lord directly owed rent or personal service by a tenant of subinfeudated land, a tenant's liege lord.
n
A feudal institution that recognizes equality of rights and status between two rulers, and equality in the portions of an inheritance.
n
(obsolete) A supreme ruler; an overlord; (specifically, historical) in the feudal system, a landowner who did not derive ownership of the land from anyone else, and who was able to grant fees to others; a lord paramount.
adj
At the bottom; lowest (said of feudal tenants).
n
An incipient form of feudalism.
n
(historical, Byzantine Empire) An imperial grant to an individual of temporary fiscal rights in the form of land, incomes or taxes from land, fishing rights, etc., sometimes carrying with it an obligation of military service.
n
(historical) Any social system preceding, and moving toward, later feudalism.
n
(obsolete) A collector of parish rents.
n
(historical) Any of a collection of legal documents in which the nobility and gentry of Scotland subscribed allegiance to Edward I of England.
n
(Scotland, law) Things that inherently belong to the sovereign but may be conveyed to a subject.
n
(Scotland, law, historical) A fief held of a superior feudatory; a fief held by an undertenant.
n
(Scotland, law, historical) The form by which a vassal returns the feu into the hands of a superior.
n
(Canada) A landowner in Canada; the holder of a seigneurie.
n
Alternative form of seigniorage [(historical) All the revenue obtained by a feudal lord from his vassals.]
n
A feudal lord; a nobleman who held his lands by feudal grant; any lord (holder) of a manor
n
(historical) All the revenue obtained by a feudal lord from his vassals.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To lord it over.
n
The estate of a feudal lord.
n
Alternative form of seigniorage [(historical) All the revenue obtained by a feudal lord from his vassals.]
adj
Having certain aspects of feudalism.
adv
With certain aspects of feudalism.
n
The jurisdiction of a seneschal, particularly (historical) the district governed by a seneschal in Languedoc and Normandy in late medieval and early modern France.
n
The feudal system that includes serfs.
n
Obsolete spelling of serjeanty [(law, historical) A kind of land tenure requiring some service to the land's chief lord—other than military service—as an obligation to maintain possession.]
n
(law, historical) A kind of land tenure requiring some service to the land's chief lord—other than military service—as an obligation to maintain possession.
n
(now rare) A territory or domain, especially under a feudal lordship.
n
(UK, law, obsolete) One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager.
n
(UK, law, obsolete) Tenure by socage.
n
(England, law, historical) A soc (a medieval right to hold a court or to receive fines).
n
Alternative form of socmanry [(UK, law, obsolete) Tenure by socage.]
n
(historical) A kind of servile tenure in Ireland which required the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel.
n
(Scotland law, historical) A feu sublet by a vassal to a subvassal: a right to hold subinfeudated land in perpetuity in exchange for rent.
n
Alternative form of subinfeudatory [One who holds land by subinfeudation.]
n
One who holds land by subinfeudation.
n
(historical) The vassal of a vassal.
n
The status of a subvassal.
n
(historical, feudal law) The duty of feudatories to attend the courts of their lords or superiors in time of peace, and in war to follow them and do military service.
n
(law, historical) A service which is owed from time immemorial.
n
(Scotland, law, historical) One who has made an original grant of heritable property to a tenant or vassal, on condition of a certain annual payment (feu duty) or of the performance of certain services.
n
(Scotland, law, historical) The right which the superior enjoys in the land held by the vassal.
n
(historical) A feudal landowner to whom vassals were forced to pledge allegiance.
n
(US, informal) An agent of the treasury department.
n
(UK, law, obsolete) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
n
A right to hold land under the feudal system.
n
(law, historical) A collection of acknowledgments of the vassals or tenants of a lordship, containing the rents and services they owed to the lord, etc.
n
(US, Maryland and New England dialect, historical) A parish officer elected annually to preserve good order in the church during divine service, to make complaint of any disorderly conduct, and to enforce the observance of the Sabbath.
n
A payment made by a feudal vassal to his lord.
adj
(Shetland, Orkney) Allodial, inalienable.
n
(Shetland, Orkney) One who holds property by udal, or allodial, right.
n
One who holds property by udal, or allodial, right.
n
Alternative form of vavasour [(historical) a subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown directly]
n
(historical) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who keeps land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.
n
A state that is subordinate to another; government chiefly directed by the interests of an overlord or patron state.
n
The system of vassalage.
n
Synonym of vassaldom (“realm of a vassal”)
n
Alternative spelling of vavasour [(historical) a subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown directly]
n
(law, obsolete) The lands held by a vavasor.
n
(historical) a subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown directly
n
Alternative form of vavasour [(historical) a subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown directly]
n
(UK, law, obsolete) Things belonging to the sheriff, especially farms (also called "vicontiel rents") for which the sheriff used to pay rent to the king.
n
(historical) The smallest administrative unit of land in feudal England, corresponding to the Anglo-Saxon tithing and the modern parish.
n
(historical) A feudal tenant, a serf.
n
A feudal system involving villeins; serfdom.
n
(now historical) One who held land under the wardholding system.
n
Alternative form of witenagemot [(historical, usually uncountable, sometimes countable) Any of several assemblies which existed in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th century, initially with regional jurisdiction (there being different ones in Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex and Wessex), later with national jurisdiction, made up of important noblemen.]
n
(historical) The land possessed by a zamindar.
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