feudal
51feudal law — noun a) A feudal law b) (absolute use) The legislation governing feudal matters, such as the procedures, (mutual) rights and duties concerning fiefs, feudal lords and their enfeoffed vassals …
52feudal system — The system of feuds. A political and social system which prevailed throughout Europe during the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, and is supposed to have grown out of the peculiar usages and policy of the Teutonic nations who overran… …
53feudal system — The system of feuds. A political and social system which prevailed throughout Europe during the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, and is supposed to have grown out of the peculiar usages and policy of the Teutonic nations who overran… …
54feudal lord — noun A lord in a feudal system, who bestows fiefs on vassals …
55Feudal levy — The summoning of an army by the king. The *fyrd came together as a result of the king s summons. After the Conquest, servitium debitum answered the king s need for knights; the great lords with their retinues also responded, though they may well… …
56Feudal Levy — The army available to a lord resulting from the obligations to field a number of knights and men at arms in exchange for the land and it’s income. This military service was the mainstay of medieval forces until the middle of the 14th century,… …
57feudal investiture — /fjudl ɪnˈvɛstətʃə/ (say fyoohdl in vestuhchuh) noun (in the feudal system) the public grant of the land by the lord to the tenant …
58feudal possession — The equivalent of seisin under the feudal system …
59feudal tenures — The tenures of real estate under the feudal system, such as knight service, socage, villeinage, etc …
60feudal possession — The equivalent of seisin under the feudal system …
