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Definition of serjeanty

serjeanty
Sergeanty Ser"geant*y, n. [Cf. OF. sergentie, LL. sergentia. See Sergeant.] (Eng. Law) Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only. [Written also serjeanty.] Grand sergeanty, a particular kind of tenure by which the tenant was bound to do some special honorary service to the king in person, as to carry his banner, his sword, or the like. --Tomlins. --Cowell. --Blackstone. Petit sergeanty. See under Petit.

Meaning of serjeanty from wikipedia

- Under feudalism in France and England during the Middle Ages, tenure by serjeanty (/ˈsɑːrdʒənti/) was a form of tenure in return for a specified duty other...
- manor and lands under tenure by Serjeanty. According to the Liber Feodurum or Book of Fees, Roland under his serjeanty, was obligated to perform every...
- military tenure.[citation needed] Freehold (indeterminate & hereditable): by serjeanty. Such tenure was in return for acting as a servant to the king, in a non-military...
- feudal barony Feudal baron Knight's fee Knight-service Baronage Peerage Serjeanty Copyhold Freehold Gavelkind Customary freehold Landed gentry Peerages...
- feudal barony Feudal baron Knight's fee Knight-service Baronage Peerage Serjeanty Copyhold Freehold Gavelkind Customary freehold Landed gentry Peerages...
- feudal barony Feudal baron Knight's fee Knight-service Baronage Peerage Serjeanty Copyhold Freehold Gavelkind Customary freehold Landed gentry Peerages...
- speaking such service was either military (knight-service) or non-military (serjeanty, etc.). Military service was generally to a maximum of 40 days per annum...
- Serjeant may refer to: The holder of a serjeanty, a type of feudal land-holding in England A generally obsolete spelling of sergeant, although still used...
- sometimes along with vestigial manorial rights and tenures by grand serjeanty. After the Norman Conquest in 1066, the Norman dynasty introduced an adaptation...
- a kitchen or culinary serjeanty, was referred to by J. Horace Round as the "Maupygernon serjeanty" or the Addington serjeanty. The manor was held by...