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(dated or historical) Freehold land or property; land held in allodial tenure, or one's title to such land.
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The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes.
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Alternative spelling of arendator [(historical) In the Russian Empire, a person who farmed local rents or revenues.]
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(law, dated) An ancient privilege granted to forest officers to take for their own any thorns, brushwood, and windfalls within their own precincts.
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(UK, law, obsolete) The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.
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A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers.
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(law) One who holds bailed property; one who takes possession of the property of another (called a bailor) in order to keep that property safe for the other.
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(law) A person who provides bail for another
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(Scotland, law, historical) The right which a disposer acquires when disposing of feudal property.
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(Scotland, law, obsolete) A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.
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(Anglo-Saxon) In Anglo-Saxon society, land held by charter or written title, free from all fief, fee, service, and/or fines. Such was formerly held chiefly by the nobility and denominated freeholders.
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(historical) A medieval tenure in socage under which property in England and Scotland was held under the king or a lord of a town, and was maintained for a yearly rent or for rendering an inferior service (not knight's service) such as watching and warding.
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(historical) A form of land taxation that replaced Danegeld in twelfth-century England.
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A feudal tax levied on horned cattle.
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(historical) The ancient right of an Irish chief to quarter himself and his retainers on his tenantry.
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A system used informally in lower Irish courts, where a defendant can be directed to make a donation to charity in lieu of conviction.
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(law, historical) A tithing.
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(historical) Any member of a tithing.
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A tithe or tax of one-tenth (now usually in historical Italian contexts).
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(obsolete) A tithe or other 10% tax or payment.
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A collector or receiver of tithes.
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(historical, law, obsolete) Synonym of tithing (a division of the hundreds of medieval England)
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(obsolete) A tenth; a tenth part; a tithe.
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(obsolete, law, UK) The tenure by which a drench held land
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(Scotland, law) A doubling of the duty to be paid on a feu.
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(Scotland, law) Alternative form of duplicand [(Scotland, law) A doubling of the duty to be paid on a feu.]
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Alternative form of decime [(historical, law, obsolete) Synonym of tithing (a division of the hundreds of medieval England)]
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A person possessing an erf (small inherited house-and-garden lot in a village or settlement).
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(historical, Middle Ages) Payment to a lord in lieu of military service.
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(Scotland, law) A predial servitude (a legal interest by a non-owner connected with a piece of land) that grants the dominant tenant the right to cut out portions of turf for the construction or repair of sod structures such as houses, fences, or roofs.
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Alternative form of feoffer [(law) One who enfeoffs or grants a fee.]
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(Anglo-Saxon) In Anglo-Saxon law, a tax for the king's sustentation as he went through his realm.
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The price of grain in the counties of Scotland, as legally fixed on an annual basis.
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(religion) A person who gives five percent of their income or five hours a week of their time to charity (a reduction of ten percent tithing).
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(Scotland, historical) Rent due to be paid before the first crop is reaped.
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(UK, law, historical) A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters.
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(UK, law) A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold.
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(law, historical, uncommon) The tithing itself.
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(historical, law, UK) The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge
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Alternative form of feuar [(Scotland, property law, historical) One who holds a feu.]
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An Anglo-Saxon householder who owes rent to the king or his grantees rather than to a private landowner.
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(historical) An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally; also called gavelkind.
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(historical) a system of inheritance associated with the county of Kent in England whereby, at the death of a tenant, intestate estate is divided equally among all his sons; also, a similar system employed in Ireland
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(law, historical) A tenant liable to tribute.
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(historical) In Anglo-Saxon law, the owner of an allotment or yard-land, usually consisting of 30 acres; a villein.
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(historical) In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
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(historical, law) Synonym of tithingman: the head of a tithing.
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Alternative form of headborough [(historical, law) Synonym of tithingman: the head of a tithing.]
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(archaic) A payment made to a lord on the death of a tenant.
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(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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(chiefly US) An employee of an oil or mining company who negotiates with landowners for rights to extract oil or minerals from their property.
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a landing-surveyor (a customs official appointing and overseeing landwaiters)
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Alternative spelling of land grant
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Traditional landowners, typically in Britain, who live off the income the land they own brings in.
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(historical) A form of ground rent paid in medieval times.
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(chiefly in the plural) A great landed estate with absentee ownership and labor often in a state of partial servitude.
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Alternative form of lething [(historical) A public levy of free farmers in mediaeval Scandinavia, to organise coastal fleets for seasonal excursions and in defence of the realm.]
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Alternative form of lething [(historical) A public levy of free farmers in mediaeval Scandinavia, to organise coastal fleets for seasonal excursions and in defence of the realm.]
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(historical) A public levy of free farmers in mediaeval Scandinavia, to organise coastal fleets for seasonal excursions and in defence of the realm.
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(New South Wales, Australia, law) Any hypothetical reasonable person used by the Courts in considering questions of reasonableness.
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Alternative form of manbote [(law, historical, Anglo-Saxon) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant.]
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(law, historical, Anglo-Saxon) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant.
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(historical, Scotland) A contract, usually military and between Scottish clans, in which a weaker man or clan pledged to serve, in return for protection, a stronger lord or clan.
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(obsolete) In Middle Ages England, a fine paid to a lord on a daughter's marriage, in recompense for the loss of a worker.
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(law) A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi.
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(obsolete, rare) A payment formerly made to the parish clergy upon the death of a parishioner, consisting of a ninth of the movable goods.
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(Scotland, law, historical) In Scottish feudal land law, a fresh grant of lands to the grantee, usually to make some change in the incidents of tenure of land already granted, or to resolve doubts about the grant or its terms.
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(law, historical) A delivery or restitution of cattle; compensation for the loss of cattle.
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A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
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The holding of a plot of land.
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(historical) The obligation to demand and to receive satisfaction for an insult, especially by fighting a duel.
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(UK, law, obsolete) A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed; the king's silver.
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(Scotland, law, historical) A return of the feu to the superior.
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(law, Scotland, historical) A clause in a charter specifying the services to be rendered by a vassal to his superior.
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(Canada, law, historical) A grant made of feudal property.
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(historical) A tallage of 10% on revenues and movable properties, levied in England and to some extent France in 1188, in response to the capture of Jerusalem by Saladin in 1187.
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(historical) In the Middle Ages (and chiefly but not exclusively medieval England), a legal system whereby a tenant would pay a rent or do some agricultural work for the landlord.
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Alternative spelling of socage [(historical) In the Middle Ages (and chiefly but not exclusively medieval England), a legal system whereby a tenant would pay a rent or do some agricultural work for the landlord.]
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(UK, law, obsolete) A custom of tenants to grind corn at the lord's mill.
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(law, Scotland) A contract by which goods on a farm (such as corn, cattle, implements, etc.) remain the property of the landlord and may not be taken away by a departing tenant.
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(obsolete) A penalty in feudal times for non-payment of castle-guard rent on the appointed day.
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In Scotland, tithes derived from the produce of the land for the maintenance of the clergy.
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(UK, law, obsolete) Land granted by the crown to a thane or lord
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Resembling or characteristic of a tenant.
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(historical) An oath taken on 20 June 1789 by the members of the French Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established"; pivotal in the French Revolution.
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(UK, law, historical, in the plural) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
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(historical, usually in the plural) One of several men gathered at a thing, for example to settle a dispute over a debt.
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(obsolete) The constable of a tithing or township
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Alternative form of teind [(Scotland) A tithe.]
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Subject to the payment of tithes.
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A barn used in the Middle Ages for storing the tithes gathered from the local community
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(historical) A collector of tithes.
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Alternative form of tithe proctor. [(historical) A collector of tithes.]
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Alternative form of tithe barn [A barn used in the Middle Ages for storing the tithes gathered from the local community]
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(historical) Alternative form of tithingman. [(law, historical) The chief of a tithing.]
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(law, historical) The chief of a tithing.
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(Christianity, historical) A layman invested with church lands after the Reformation in Scotland.
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A messuage with right of common.
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Obsolete spelling of tithe [(transitive) To pay something as a tithe.]
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(historical) A system of tenure in Dartmoor, England, allowing residents to graze animals on the moor and to gather coal, turf, etc. from the forest.
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(UK, historical) The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
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(now historical) A form of land tenure in Scotland, equivalent to knight service in England.
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(historical) An ancient custom whereby, if a tenant of Dover Castle in Kent, England failed in pay rent on the assigned day, he would have to pay double, and, on the second failure, treble, etc.
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