knight-service

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

KNIGHT-SERVICE, noun In English feudal law, a tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service, every possessor of a knight's fee, or estate originally of twenty pounds annual value, being obliged to attend the king in his wars.
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