| 单词 | military tenure |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilitary tenure military tenure n. historical a feudal tenure under which a vassal owed his superior certain defined services in war. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > tenure by service > by military or knight service knight-service1439 ward1508 chivalry1528 ward-holding1681 military tenure1764 1764 J. Otis Rights Brit. Colonies 51 Would these gentlemen carry us back to the state of the Goths and Vandals, and revive all the military tenures and bondage which our fore-fathers could not bear? 1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 14/2 Soon after the restoration of king Char. II. when the military tenures were abolished. 1882 Macmillan's Mag. Sept. 366 The old military tenures were abolished and the land-tax was imposed by way of compensation to the Crown for the dues which it thereby lost. 1983 Speculum 58 951 In the distraint of 1256 Henry attempted to expand the net of military obligation to its widest limits by ordering all men with £15 of land or more, held by military tenure, to become knights. < as lemmas |
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