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Definition of Homagers
1. homager [n] - See also: homager
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homagers
Literary usage of Homagers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Copyhold, Customary Freehold, and Ancient Demesne Tenure: With by John Scriven, Henry Stalman (1846)
"ROLL OF GENERAL CUSTOMARY COURT BARON, Held by the steward without the presence
of homagers. ... homagers ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Copyholds and Customary Tenures of Land: With an by Charles Isaac Elton, Herbert James Hay Mackay (1893)
"(First proclamation in a statutory court held without the presence of homagers
of the death of a customary tenant, and default recorded.) No. 7. ..."
3. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1897)
"They also contended, that if the consent of the homagers was essential to such
custom, either in law or in fact as part of the same, presuming the same to ..."
4. Term Reports in the Court of King's Bench by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Charles Durnford, Edward Hyde East (1817)
"(naming them) the other twenty-one of the said homagers, were not at the time of
... The question here is not Whether two homagers alone could elect ? but, ..."
5. The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal by Yorkshire Archaeological Society (1898)
"... has one plough 'here, and one of his homagers one plough, and six villanos
with two ploughs, and fourteen acres of meadow. ..."
6. A History of Whitby, and Streoneshalh Abbey: With a Statistical Survey of by George Young (1817)
"... however, to be of an inferior order to the homagers above-named; for while
the homagers, such as Nichol of Aton, could possess property which descended ..."
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