(UK, historical) A form of land tenure in return for religious duty or service.
(UK, historical) A form of land tenure in return for religious duty or service.
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(UK, legal) A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold.
(UK, _, law, historical) Land held in villeinage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and taken back at his discretion.
(UK, legal, obsolete) A form of conditional marriage-gift of land under English law, often from father to daughter.
(legal, UK) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession.
A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.