feudal+tenant
41writ of right — noun a writ ordering that land be restored to its rightful owner • Topics: ↑law, ↑jurisprudence • Hypernyms: ↑writ, ↑judicial writ * * * 1. : an original writ used to protect a feudal tenant in the enjoyment of his freehold property by trial of… …
42sub|in|feu|da|tion — «SUHB ihn fyoo DAY shuhn», noun. in feudal law: 1. the granting of lands by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, who held them on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant. 2. the tenure so established. 3. an estate or fief so created …
43lord — lordlike, adj. /lawrd/, n. 1. a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler. 2. a person who exercises authority from property rights; an owner of land, houses, etc. 3. a person who is a leader or has great… …
44vassal — /vsesal/ A feudal tenant or grantee; a feudatory; the holder of a fief on a feudal tenure, and by the obligation of performing feudal services. The correlative term was lord. The vassal himself might have been lord of some other vassal. In later… …
45feodary — ˈfyüdərē noun ( es) Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin feodarius, from feodum + Latin arius ary 1. a. : a feudal tenant …
46vassal — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Medieval Latin vassallus, from vassus servant, vassal, of Celtic origin; akin to Welsh gwas young man, servant Date: 14th century 1. a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he …
47lord — I. noun Etymology: Middle English loverd, lord, from Old English hlāford, from hlāf loaf + weard keeper more at loaf, ward Date: before 12th century 1. one having power and authority over others: a. a ruler by hereditary right or preeminence to… …
48Homage (medieval) — For other related uses see commendation ceremony and homage (disambiguation) Homage in the Middle Ages was the ceremony in which a feudal tenant or vassal pledged reverence and submission to his feudal lord, receiving in exchange the symbolic… …
49relief — relief1 reliefless, adj. /ri leef /, n. 1. alleviation, ease, or deliverance through the removal of pain, distress, oppression, etc. 2. a means or thing that relieves pain, distress, anxiety, etc. 3. money, food, or other help given to those in… …
50Homage — The ceremony by which a vassal pledges his fealty to his liege, and acknowledges all other feudal obligations, in return for a grant of land. The public pronouncement of a vassal to his lord where he swore to become ‘his man’, an oath that… …
