| 单词 | immediate tenant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasimmediate tenant b. spec. In Feudal Law, said of the relation between two persons one of whom holds of the other directly, as in immediate lord, immediate tenant, immediate tenure; also elliptically = Holding directly of the sovereign or lord paramount, spec. in Germany, of the Emperor. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [adjective] > direct or intermediate mediate1454 immediate1543 1543–4 Act 35 Hen. VIII c. 4 The chiefe lorde or lordes immediate, of whom suche..houses be holden. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. lj Ready to serue..their natural and immediate lord Jasper erle of Penbrooke. 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 229 To be free from either a mediat, or immediat Tenure of him. 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 10 The King is immediate from God. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. v. 481 The inferior nobility,..having now become immediate, abused that independence. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. iii. 11 The King's immediate tenants were bound to attend his court. < as lemmas |
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