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Copy :: Copy (n.) Copyhold; tenure; lease.

Feu :: Feu (n.) A free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money..

Allodially :: Allodially (adv.) By allodial tenure.

Nontenure :: Nontenure (n.) A plea of a defendant that he did not hold the land, as affirmed..

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..

Feud :: Feud (n.) A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee..

Drengage :: Drengage (n.) The tenure by which a drench held land.

Frankalmoigne :: Frankalmoigne (a.) A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms..

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

Tenure :: Tenure (n.) The consideration, condition, or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land..

Sergeanty :: Sergeanty (n.) Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only..

Disgavel :: Disgavel (v. t.) To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands.

Holding :: Holding (n.) A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.

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

Bondage :: Bondage (a.) Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.

Fixity :: Fixity (n.) Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed..

Tenure :: Tenure (n.) Manner of holding, in general; as, in absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure..

Feodality :: Feodality (n.) Feudal tenure; the feudal system. See Feudality.

Feudal :: Feudal (a.) Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures..

Frank-marriage :: Frank-marriage (n.) A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife (the wife being of the blood of the donor), and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten..

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