| 单词 | subject superior |
| 释义 | > as lemmassubject superior subject superior n. Law (now historical). a superior (superior n. 1) who holds property as subject of a sovereign. ΚΠ 1720 A. Bruce Decisions Lords of Council & Session 1714–15 173 'Tis usually long before Subject-Superiors can be transacted with. 1734 Treat. Orig. & Progress of Fees 34 Such Charters are granted by the Sovereign only, and by no Subject Superior. a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) I. ii. vii. §6 281 In lands holden of subject-superiors. 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 264/1 The means of commuting the services they had bound themselves to pay to the ‘subject superior’, and of converting themselves into direct vassals of the crown. 2003 S. Irvine Sc. Ancestry (ed. 2) ix. 144 The burghs of barony were much smaller,..created with the permission of the Crown by someone who in Scotland would be referred to as a superior or subject superior. < as lemmas |
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