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Glossary
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Advowson
Date: 14th century The right in English law of presenting a nominee to
an ecclesiastical benefice
Appurtenant Date: 14th century constituting a legal accompaniment
Benefice Date: 14th century 1 : an ecclesiastical office to which the revenue
from an endowment is attached 2 : a feudal estate in lands :
Carucate A plow land As much land as one team can plow in a year and a
day; -- said to be about 100 acres
Chalybeate Date: 1634 Impregnated with salts of iron; also : having a taste
due to iron <chalybeate springs>
Chantry Date: 14th century 1 : an endowment for the chanting of masses
commonly for the founder 2 : a chapel endowed by a chantry
Cottar Date: 14th century A peasant or farm laborer who occupies a cottage
and sometimes a small holding of land usually in return for services
Demesne Date: 14th century manorial land actually possessed by the lord
and not held by tenants
Exonerated Date: 1524 1 : to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or
hardship 2 : to clear from accusation or blame
Escheat Date: 14th century a : the reversion of lands in English feudal
law to the lord of the fee when there are no heirs capable of inheriting
under the original grant b : the reversion of property to the crown in
England
enfeoff Date: 15th century: to invest with a fief or fee
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Fealty
Date: 14th century a : the fidelity of a vassal or feudal tenant to his
lord b : the obligation of such fidelity
Fief Date: circa 1611 1 : a feudal estate 2 : something over which one
has rights or exercises control <a politician's fief>
Fee Date: 14th century a 1 : an estate in land held in feudal law from
a lord on condition of homage and service 2 : a piece of land so held
b : an inherited or heritable estate in land
Fine Date: 13th century 2 : a compromise of a fictitious suit used as a
form of conveyance of lands 3 a : a sum imposed as punishment for an offense
b : a forfeiture or penalty paid to an injured party in a civil action
Hide Date: before 12th century: any of various old English units of land
area; especially : a unit of 120 acres
Hundred inquisition Date: 14th century 1 : the act of inquiring 2 : a judicial
or official inquiry or examination usually before a jury; also 3 : the finding
of the jury
Licence Date: 14th century 1 : permission to act 2 a : a permission granted
by competent authority to engage in a business or occupation or in an
activity otherwise
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Manor
Date: 14th century 1 a : the house or hall of an estate :b : a landed estate 2
a : a unit of English rural territorial organization; especially : such
a unit in the Middle Ages consisting of an estate under a lord enjoying
a variety of rights over land and tenants including the right to hold
court
Moiety Date: 15th century 1 a : one of two equal parts : b : one of two
approximately equal parts 2 : one of the portions into which something
is divided seised
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Soke
Date: 12th century 1 : the right in Anglo-Saxon and early English law to
hold court and administer justice with the franchise to receive certain
fees or fines arising from it : jurisdiction over a territory or over
people 2 : the district included in a soke jurisdiction or franchise
Sokemen Date: 1579A man who is under the soke of another
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Tithe
Date: before 12th century 1 : to pay or give a tenth part of especially
for the support of the church 2 : to levy a tithe on
Thane Date: before 12th century 1 : a free retainer of an Anglo-Saxon lord;
especially : one resembling a feudal baron by holding lands of and performing
military service for the king 2 : a Scottish feudal lord
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Villein
Date: 14th century 1 : a free common villager or village peasant of any
of the feudal classes lower in rank than the thane 2 : a free peasant of
a feudal class lower than a sokeman and higher than a cotter 3 : an unfree
peasant standing as the slave of a feudal lord but free in legal relations
with respect to all others
Virgate Date: 1655 An old English unit of land area equal to one quarter
of a hide or one quarter of an acre
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