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Enfeoff :: Enfeoff (v. t.) To give a feud, or right in land, to; to invest with a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment..

Knight :: Knight (n.) In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life..

Adscript :: Adscript (a.) Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.

Feudalist :: Feudalist (n.) An upholder of feudalism.

Bailey :: Bailey (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle.

Allodial :: Allodial (a.) Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system..

Subingression :: Subinfeudation (n.) Subordinate tenancy; undertenancy.

Vendetta :: Vendetta (n.) A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.

Feudalizing :: Feudalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feudaliz.

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..

Zamindar :: Zamindar (n.) A landowner; also, a collector of land revenue; now, usually, a kind of feudatory recognized as an actual proprietor so long as he pays to the government a certain fixed revenue..

Baron :: Baron (n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount..

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..

Infeodation :: Infeodation (n.) See Infeudation.

Infeudation :: Infeudation (n.) The granting of tithes to laymen.

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..

Feoffment :: Feoffment (n.) The grant of a feud or fee.

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

Unfeudalize :: Unfeudalize (v. t.) To free from feudal customs or character; to make not feudal.

Extinct :: Extinct (a.) Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law..

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