 | English history - 1882 - 130 pages
...applies almost exclusively to the punishment of death. FEALTY (Fidelitas) signifies the oath of fidelity, taken at the admittance of every tenant, to be true to the lord of whom he held his land. It differed from homage in being permanent, as well as in the formalities observed.... | |
 | Earl Roy Miner, William Moeck, Steven Edward Jablonski - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 520 pages
...fPhillips's definition of "fealty" from his New World of English Words is relevant here: "fidelity, an oath taken at the admittance of every tenant, to be true to the Lord of whom he holds his land." [SJ] 206 Affecting God-head, and so loosing all. Genesis 3.5, "in the day ye eat thereof... | |
 | Thomas Blount - Law - 2004 - 288 pages
...Eftates of Inheritance. and Burgesftup; 16 , or |iintainers. (Fidelity, Fr. Feaulie, 'f: ' Signifies an Oath taken , at the admittance of every tenant, to be true to the Lord of whom FA he holds his Land : And he that holds Land*. by this onely Oath of Fealty, holds in the freeft manner... | |
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This term (French feaulte, f1delitas) signifies an oath taken at the admittance of every tenant, to be true to the lord of whom he holds his land ; and such tenant is said to hold his fee " per fidem et fiduciam, 
