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Heriot custom
Heriot Her"i*ot, n. [AS. heregeatu military equipment, heriot; here army + geatwe, pl., arms, equipments.] (Eng. Law) Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant. --Blackstone. Bouvier. Heriot custom, a heriot depending on usage. Heriot service (Law), a heriot due by reservation in a grant or lease of lands. --Spelman. Blackstone.

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- Heriot, from Old English heregeat ("war-gear"), was originally a death-duty in late Anglo-Saxon England, which required that at death, a nobleman provided...
- Copyholds very commonly required the payment of a type of death duty called an heriot to the lord of the manor upon the decease of the copyholder. Two main kinds...
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- Alexander Heriot Mackonochie SSC (11 August 1825 – 15 December 1887) was a Church of England mission priest known as "the martyr of St Alban's" on account...
- sciences in 1979 and master's degree in 1981, capping it with a PhD from the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh In 1985. He died on 28 January 2015 in New...
- Deepak Tripathi, FRHistS, FRAS (born 1951) is a British historian of Indian origin with particular reference to South Asia, the Middle East, the Cold War...
- 1590s, George Heriot sold pieces to Anne of Denmark, and he was appointed goldsmith to the Queen on 17 July 1597. In August 1599 Heriot was paid £400...
- Trinidad and Tobago. Richards also received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 2007. "History of the Presidency | The Office of the...
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- William Speirs Bruce FRSE (1 August 1867 – 28 October 1921) was a British naturalist, polar scientist and oceanographer who organised and led the Scottish...