单词 | to hold in service |
释义 | > as lemmasto hold in service (iii) Feudal Law. Used to refer to land held of another in return for service (sense 10a); generally contrasted with in demesne (see demesne n. 1a). Chiefly in to hold in service [after Anglo-Norman tenir en service (late 13th cent. or earlier) and post-classical Latin tenere in servitio (14th cent. in British sources)] : to hold (land) of another in this way; (also) to hold (land) which is occupied by a subtenant. Now rare (historical in later use). ΚΠ 1642 Iust Reward of Rebels sig. Bv That no Acres of Land held in service or bondage, should bee held but for foure pence the Acre. 1660 W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind 109 Fees..were holden but in service, nomine quasi alieno, the Dominium, that at least of Lawyers called directum. 1883 T. Twiss tr. H. de Bracton De Legibus Angliæ VI. xxvii. 417 The tenant cannot lose that in demesne, which he only holds in service. 1897 F. W. Maitland Domesday Bk. & Beyond 256 What then the folk owns..is not (if we may introduce such feudal terms) ‘land in demesne’ but ‘land in service’, in other words, a superiority or seignory over land. 2008 M. P. Cosman & L. G. Jones Handbk. Life Medieval World I. ii. 116/1 In England a demesne was land held in possession for one's own use, belonging to oneself, tenere in domineo, lands possessed by free tenure, as opposed to lands held in service, tenere in servitio. < as lemmas |
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