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Record 1 2013-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
OBS

Term no longer current in law.

OBS

Originally the distinguishing feature of this tenure was the obligation of the tenant to provide his lord with a fixed number of fully armed horsemen for forty days in each year, but by the middle of the twelfth century this obligation has in most cases been commuted for a money payment known as escuage or scutage, and by the fourteenth century the levy of scutage had ceased.

Key term(s)
  • knight-service

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

service de chevalier : qualifiant ce terme d'historique, le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO) n'a pas tenu à le normaliser.

Spanish

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