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Chivalry :: Chivalry (n.) A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord..

Gavelkind :: Gavelkind (n.) A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent..

Sorehon :: Sorehon (n.) Formerly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel..

Tenure :: Tenure (n.) The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior.

Freehold :: Freehold (n.) An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held..

Castle-guard :: Castle-guard (n.) A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time..

Blanch Holding :: Blanch holding () A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.

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

Base :: Base (a.) Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant..

Vavasory :: Vavasory (n.) The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor; also, the lands held by a vavasor..

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

Tanistry :: Tanistry (n.) In Ireland, a tenure of family lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was admitted by election..

Socage :: Socage (n.) A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent..

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..

Astrict :: Astrict (v. t.) To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4..

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

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.

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

Villain :: Villain (n.) One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant..

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

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