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homage and service, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate. Blackstone.

The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord. Burrill. Blackstone.

A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent. Jacob.

That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers. Kennet.

Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average.

A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.

services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant. Base fee, formerly, an estate held at the will of the lord; now, a qualified fee. See note under Fee, n., 4. -- Base metal. See under Metal.

A villain, or tenant in villenage.

The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house. Bailey. Mozley & W.

A bordar; a tenant in bordage.

A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.

l butt, headfirst with full force. [Colloq.] "The corporal . . . ran full butt at the lieutenant." Marryat.

See under Tenant.

the militia. (b) The Spanish governor of Cuba and its dependent islands. -- Captain lieutenant, a lieutenant with the rank and duties of captain but with a lieutenant's pay, -- as in the first company of an English regiment.

Wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.

eral of their followers. Addison. He had insolence to cashier the captain of the lord lieutenant's own body guard. Macaulay.

A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.

A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.

a neglect of a tenant to perform services, or make payment, for two years.