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Definition of Serjeanty
1. Noun. (British) A form of land ownership under the feudal system, where a family held an estate in exchange for rendering a service to their liege lord. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Serjeanty
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Serjeanty
Literary usage of Serjeanty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"271] matter we must return; but by means of the rules to which allusion has here
been made, tenure by serjeanty was kept apart from tenure by knight's ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"II (1660), grand serjeanty is not itself totally abolished, but only the slavish
appendages belonging to it; for the honorary services ..."
3. The Modern Law of Real Property: With an Introduction for the Student, and by Louis Arthur Goodeve (1885)
"None could hold by Grand serjeanty but of the King only; and it was in most other
respects ... Petit serjeanty was where a man held his land of the King, ..."
4. Littleton's Tenures in English by Thomas Littleton, Eugene Wambaugh (1903)
"Tenure by grand serjeanty is, where a man holds his lands or tenements of our
sovereign ... And the cause why this service is called grand serjeanty is, ..."
5. Littleton's Tenures in English by Thomas Littleton, Eugene Wambaugh (1903)
"Tenure by grand serjeanty is, where a man holds his lands or tenements of our
sovereign ... And the cause why this service is called grand serjeanty is, ..."
6. Record Series by Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Association (1892)
"... and whether the predecessors of Roger and William were enfeoffed by the King's
predecessors, before the feoffment of the said serjeanty or after ..."
7. A Treatise on Copyhold, Customary Freehold, and Ancient Demesne Tenure: With by John Scriven, Henry Stalman (1846)
"Some services of grand serjeanty are purely military, as to bear the king's ...
The honorary services of grand serjeanty were, as well as the tenure by copy ..."
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