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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

Ban :: Ban (n.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army..

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..

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..

Fealty :: Fealty (n.) Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation..

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

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

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

Attorn :: Attorn (v. t.) To turn, or transfer homage and service, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate..

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

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

Vassal :: Vassal (v. t.) To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.

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

Attornment :: Attornment (n.) The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord..

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