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Definition of serjeanty

serjeanty
Sergeanty Ser"geant*y, n. [Cf. OF. sergentie, LL. sergentia. See Sergeant.] (Eng. Law) Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only. [Written also serjeanty.] Grand sergeanty, a particular kind of tenure by which the tenant was bound to do some special honorary service to the king in person, as to carry his banner, his sword, or the like. --Tomlins. --Cowell. --Blackstone. Petit sergeanty. See under Petit.

Meaning of serjeanty from wikipedia

- Under feudalism in France and England during the Middle Ages, tenure by serjeanty (/ˈsɑːrdʒənti/) was a form of tenure in return for a specified duty other...
- manor and lands under tenure by serjeanty. According to the Liber Feodurum, or Book of Fees, Roland, under his serjeanty, was obligated to perform "a jump...
- change from tenure by personal Freehold (indeterminate & hereditable): by serjeanty. Such tenure was in return for acting as a servant to the king, in a non-military...
- of kitchen or culinary serjeanty, was referred to by J. Horace Round as the "Maupygernon serjeanty" or the Addington serjeanty. The manor was held by...
- feudal barony Feudal baron Knight's fee Knight-service Baronage Peerage Serjeanty Copyhold Freehold Gavelkind Customary freehold Landed gentry Peerages...
- feudal barony Feudal baron Knight's fee Knight-service Baronage Peerage Serjeanty Copyhold Freehold Gavelkind Customary freehold Landed gentry Peerages...
- made with goods. Socage contrasted with other forms of tenure, including serjeanty, frankalmoin and knight-service. The English statute Quia Emptores of...
- "barons". Others forms of land tenure under the feudal system included serjeanty (a form of tenure in return for a specified duty other than standard knight-service)...
- feudal barony Feudal baron Knight's fee Knight-service Baronage Peerage Serjeanty Copyhold Freehold Gavelkind Customary freehold Landed gentry Peerages...
- feudal barony Feudal baron Knight's fee Knight-service Baronage Peerage Serjeanty Copyhold Freehold Gavelkind Customary freehold Landed gentry Peerages...