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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..

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

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..

Tenure :: Tenure (n.) The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate..

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

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

Cessavit :: Cessavit (n.) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.

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..

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.

Hobbler :: Hobbler (n.) One who by his tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby.

Precarious :: Precarious (a.) Held by a doubtful tenure; depending on unknown causes or events; exposed to constant risk; not to be depended on for certainty or stability; uncertain; as, a precarious state of health; precarious fortunes..

Burgage :: Burgage (n.) A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft..

Copyhold :: Copyhold (n.) A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court..

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..

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