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Fine :: Fine (n.) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal..

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..

Vassaless :: Vassaless (n.) A female vassal.

Antrustion :: Antrustion (n.) A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprise.

Weregild :: Weregild (n.) The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer..

Vassal :: Vassal (n.) A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave.

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..

Manbote :: Manbote (n.) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant)..

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..

Inthrallment :: Inthrallment (n.) Act of inthralling, or state of being inthralled; servitude; bondage; vassalage..

Vassalage :: Vassalage (n.) The state of being a vassal, or feudatory..

Homager :: Homager (n.) One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage; a vassal..

Aid :: Aid (v. t.) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions.

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

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

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..

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

Vassalage :: Vassalage (n.) Valorous service, such as that performed by a vassal; valor; prowess; courage..

Beneficiary :: Beneficiary (n.) A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds..

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

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