单词 | ploughman's fee |
释义 | > as lemmasploughman's fee ploughman's fee n. Law the form of feudal tenure held by plough service. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [noun] > hereditary > right of primogeniture birtha1325 firme birtha1325 first birtha1387 first-birth right1535 right of primogeniture1602 primogeniture1614 primogenitivea1616 primogenitureship1622 ploughman's fee1660 majorat1827 1660 W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind 36 That known distinction of their lands in Normandy..unto fief de Haubert, and fief de Roturier (that is the Noblemans Fee, and the Husbandman or Ploughmans fee). 1885 C. I. Elton in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 735/1 The strict English primogeniture as applied to the rustic holdings, sometimes called fiefs de roturier or ‘ploughman's fee’. < as lemmas |
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