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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

Feudatory :: Feudatory (n.) A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.

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

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

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

Vassalage :: Vassalage (n.) Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Man :: Man (n.) An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject..

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

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