feodal

We must probably reject the suggested derivation of the word "feodal" from the

Is Ulster Right? Anonymous

He passed for a promising, reliable young man un peu feodal dans ses opinions, as

Virgin Soil 2003

* At Anet, a bronze stag, placed as a fountain in a large piece of water, was on the point of being demolished, because stags are beasts of chace, and hunting is a feodal privilege, and stags of course emblems of feodality.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

Fiefs were an establishment of the Lombards, from whom the emperors of Germany, and the kings of France, borrowed this custom, and with it the feodal laws, of which no mention is made in the Routun code.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

* At Anet, a bronze stag, placed as a fountain in a large piece of water, was on the point of being demolished, because stags are beasts of chace, and hunting is a feodal privilege, and stags of course emblems of feodality.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

We are told, indeed, by Judge Blackstone, that after that event the ancient Saxon system of tenure was laid aside, and that the Normans, wherever they had lands granted to them, introduced the feodal system; and that at length it was adopted generally, and as constitutional, throughout the kingdom.

John Keble's Parishes Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

But however this point may really be, it appears evident that the tenants of this manor have, from the earliest times to which we have the means of resorting for information, enjoyed many unusual rights and immunities, and that their services were, in many respects, far from being so base and servile as those of the strictly feodal tenant.

John Keble's Parishes Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

He passed for a promising, reliable young man un peu feodal dans ses opinions, as Prince

Virgin Soil Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

A tract of country, which had been parcelled out among twenty-eight lords, now became subject to one; and all the intricacies of feodal dependence, all the rigours of feodal exaction, wardships, reliefs, escheats, &c., were introduced at once.

Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821

The feodal discipline extended itself everywhere, and influenced the conduct of the courts and the manners of the people with its own irregular martial spirit.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763