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Vassal :: Vassal (n.) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant..

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..

Envassal :: Envassal (v. t.) To make a vassal of.

Vassal :: Vassal (a.) Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.

Terrier :: Terrier (n.) Formerly, a collection of acknowledgments of the vassals or tenants of a lordship, containing the rents and services they owed to the lord, and the like..

Inthrall :: Inthrall (v. t.) To reduce to bondage or servitude; to make a thrall, slave, vassal, or captive of; to enslave..

Freeman :: Freeman (n.) One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal..

Vassalry :: Vassalry (n.) The body of vassals.

Freeborn :: Freeborn (a.) Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom.

Homage :: Homage (n.) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign..

Drench :: Drench (n.) A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.

Bond :: Bond (n.) A vassal or serf; a slave.

Vassalage :: Vassalage (n.) A territory held in vassalage.

Vassalage :: Vassalage (n.) Vassals, collectively; vassalry..

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..

Arriere-ban :: Arriere-ban (n.) A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France..

Vavasor :: Vavasor (n.) The vassal or tenant of a baron; one who held under a baron, and who also had tenants under him; one in dignity next to a baron; a title of dignity next to a baron..

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..

Enfeoff :: Enfeoff (v. t.) To give in vassalage; to make subservient.

Manrent :: Manrent (n.) Homage or service rendered to a superior, as to a lord; vassalage..

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