Fief, fee, or feud - Land or revenue-producing property granted by a lord in return for a vassal's service. ... Vassal - A free man who held land (fief) from a lord to whom he paid homage and swore fealty. He owed various services and obligations, primarily military.
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4) An estate in land (in England normally heritable): held on condition of homage and the performance of services (both customary and specified, including, essentially, military service) to a superior lord, by whom it is granted, and in whom the ownership remains.
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the free settlers, to whom land was granted on condition that they employed ... as leading (in the words of Lord John Russell) to the creation of "a society ...
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The record is from colonial land grants, book 8, page 481. ... TO ALL, to whom these presents shall come, Greeting in Our Lord God Everlasting, WHEREAS, it doth please Our Soverign Lord, KING CHARLES II, Now, Know ye that, I Lord Governor, WILLIAM BERKLEY, appointed by the King, Governor of this Commonwealth etc....
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; Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!" ... 42:16. "I dwell in the midst of a people who by their impudent sinnings are pulling down desolating judgments upon the land, which I, who am a sinner too, may justly expect to be involved in."
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This soldier was convinced that God has given the land of Palestine to the Jews, and that it would be a sin to return the land to the Arabs. ... In Deuteronomy 23:3 we find that an Ammonite or Moabite cannot join the congregation of the Lord's people "forever."
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liege; The superior or sovereign lord to whom a vassal owes ultimate allegiance above all others. ... tenure or hide; Small plots of land granted by a lord to freed slaves or serfs in exchange for service, tithes and labour.
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liege; The superior or sovereign lord to whom a vassal owes ultimate allegiance above all others. ... tenure or hide; Small plots of land granted by a lord to freed slaves or serfs in exchange for service, tithes and labour.
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Jeremiah 20:7 O LORD, You have deceived me and I was deceived; You have overcome me and prevailed. ... Alphabetical: a Alas all and As birth borne borrowed contends contention curses everyone gave have I land lent man me men money mother my neither nor not of strife strives that the to whole whom with Woe yet you...
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A Vassal or Liege was a free man who held land ( a fief ) from a lord to whom he paid homage and swore fealty. A vassal could be a Lord of the Manor but ... The fief, or land, was usually granted following a Commendation Ceremony. The commendation ceremony was designed to create a lasting bond between a vassal and his lord.
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