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rear-vassal Hist.
Also rere-.
[f. rear- + vassal, after F. arrière-vassal, ‘an vnder-vassall, a vassall vnto a vassall’ (Cotgr.).]
A sub-vassal; one who does not hold directly of the sovereign.
1761Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) III. 215 His own immediate vassals were bound to follow him into the field against a prince of whom they were themselves the rear-vassals. 1832Austin Jurispr. (1879) II. lii. 875 This..is the case with freehold land..where the tenant in fee simple is properly a rere vassal. 1844Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. xiii. (1862) 183 note, Mr. Hume erroneously thinks that the statute 7 Hen. IV. gave rear-vassals their right of election. |