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Farm :: Farm (a. & n.) The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.

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..

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

Knight Service :: Knight service () A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4..

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..

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.

Tenancy :: Tenancy (n.) A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another..

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

Villanage :: Villanage (n.) The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord..

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..

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

Feudal :: Feudal (a.) Consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the feudal system..

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

Bordage :: Bordage (n.) The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.

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

Agrarian :: Agrarian (a.) Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens..

Fedaliza/tion :: Fedaliza/tion (n.) The act of reducing to feudal tenure.

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..

Bockland :: Bockland (n.) Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds..

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