A customary obligation to construct and maintain a bridge or bridges in a particular region. Cf. church work, n. 1. Now historical.

A service which some tenants had to perform to their lord, viz. at his request or bidding to reap his corn at harvest-time. The days thus employed…

in Feudal Law, a service by which a tenant was bound to carry wood felled in the forests to the lord's house (cf. bord-lode, n.).

suit and service and variants. Attendance at court and personal service due from a tenant to his or her lord (see service, n.1 10). Also used to…

(a) a man chosen from the tenants of a suling to collect the dues belonging thereto; (b) a service due from tenants of a suling.

suit and service and variants. Attendance at court and personal service due from a tenant to his or her lord (see service, n.1 10). Also used to…

suit and service and variants. Attendance at court and personal service due from a tenant to his or her lord (see service, n.1 10). Also used to…

Law. sect of court (medieval Latin secta curiæ): ‘Suit and Service done by Tenants at the Court of their Lord’ (J. Harris Lex. Techn. 1710, II).

a tenurial obligation to carry wood.

service rendered by attendance at a lord's court; also figurative. Now historical.

military service rendered as a due to the overlord.