serjeanty 的定义
Medieval English Law.
- a form of land tenure in which a tenant holding of the king rendered him exclusive services in a status below that of a knight.
更多serjeanty例句
- Grand serjeanty is of course included by parity under military service.
- In the servientes Regis who have been enfeoffed in divers counties we may see the predecessors of the tenants by serjeanty.
- It tells us, further, that he held them by serjeanty—'et est venator leporum, et facit servitium'.