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Heriot custom
Heriot Her"i*ot, n. [AS. heregeatu military equipment, heriot; here army + geatwe, pl., arms, equipments.] (Eng. Law) Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant. --Blackstone. Bouvier. Heriot custom, a heriot depending on usage. Heriot service (Law), a heriot due by reservation in a grant or lease of lands. --Spelman. Blackstone.

Meaning of Heriot custom from wikipedia

- Heriot, from Old English heregeat ("war-gear"), was originally a death-duty in late Anglo-Saxon England, which required that at death, a nobleman provided...
- Copyholds very commonly required the payment of a type of death duty called an heriot to the lord of the manor upon the decease of the copyholder. Two main kinds...
- Alexander Heriot Mackonochie SSC (11 August 1825 – 15 December 1887) was a Church of England mission priest known as "the martyr of St Alban's" on account...
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- sciences in 1979 and master's degree in 1981, capping it with a PhD from the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh In 1985. He died on 28 January 2015 in New...
- the Royal College of Art, De Montfort University, Plymouth University, Heriot-Watt University, and the Open University. The Design Museum held a major...
- based programming language developed at the University of St Andrews and Heriot-Watt University in Scotland since the year 2000. The language name is both...
- jewel set with 29 diamonds, and in January 1601 a gift provided by George Heriot cost £1,333 Scots. Rumours circulated that Anne was involved in Gowrie Conspiracy...
- Deepak Tripathi, FRHistS, FRAS (born 1951) is a British historian of Indian origin with particular reference to South Asia, the Middle East, the Cold War...
- corner of the world exhibit their career programs and scholarship programs. Heriot-Watt University, University of Bolton, Cambridge University, Oxford University...