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Knight's service   /naɪts sˈərvəs/   Listen
Knight's service

noun
1.
Land tenure by service to the lord as a knight.






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"Knight's service" Quotes from Famous Books



... wound given to the feudal system was the Act of the 12th of Charles II, which abolished the tenure of knight's service in capite, and which Blackstone compares, for its salutary influence upon property, to the boasted provisions of Magna Charta itself. Yet even in this act we see the effects of that counteracting spirit which ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al



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