单词 | mediate sovereignty |
释义 | > as lemmasmediate sovereignty b. Feudal Law. Of a feudal lord or of a tenant or vassal: related through a mesne lord or intermediary. Of a feudal relationship between lord and tenant: effected through an intermediary, as in mediate holding, mediate sovereignty, mediate tenure. Also figurative. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [adjective] > direct or intermediate mediate1454 immediate1543 1454 Rolls of Parl. V. 274/2 To paye..their rentes..to their Lordis mediates and immediates. 1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys ii. f. xxxixv The kyng or eny other lord medyate or immedyate that [etc.]. 1611 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdoms World (new ed.) 215 As touching his mediate [1630 immediate] Soueraignety. 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 229 To be free from either a mediat, or immediat Tenure of him. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. v. 480 Those which had depended upon mediate lords became immediately connected with the empire. 1839 E. A. Poe Island of Fay in Wks. (1864) I. 361 [A planet] whose mediate sovereign is the sun. 1841 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. I. 173 The holding might also be mediate, that is, in the way of subinfeudation. 1843 T. Lewis Disc. True Idea of State 31 This ultimate or absolute sovereignty..in distinction from that acting or mediate sovereignty which is lodged with the present rulers. 1961 Speculum 36 263 Mediate lords might make their own summons to the general court the occasion for taxing their peasants. < as lemmas |
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