An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words, and termes of the lawes of this realme, newly set forth & augmented, both in French & English, for the help of such yong students, as are desirous to attaine to the knowledge of the same
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An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words, and termes of the lawes of this realme, newly set forth & augmented, both in French & English, for the help of such yong students, as are desirous to attaine to the knowledge of the same
Author
Rastell, John, d. 1536.
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At London :: Printed by th'assignee of Charles Yetsweirt Esq. deceased. Cum priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis,
1595.
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Law -- England -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
Law -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
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"An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words, and termes of the lawes of this realme, newly set forth & augmented, both in French & English, for the help of such yong students, as are desirous to attaine to the knowledge of the same." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10426.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2025.
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Graund Seriantie.
GRaunde Seriantie is, where a man holdeth of the king certaine lande by the seruice of carying his banner or launce, or to lead his hoste, or to be his car∣uer, or butler at his Co∣ronation, and that is most honorable seruice and most worthie that a tenant may doe, and for that it is cal∣led graund serianty. But petit seriantie is when one holdeth of the King, pay∣ing to him yéerely a bow, a sworde, a speare, and such like, and that is but Socage in effecte, but a man cannot hold in grand
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Serieantie or by petit ser∣ieantie but of the King. Al∣so if a tenant by grand ser∣ieantie dieth his heire be∣ing of full age the heire shal pay to the King for reliefe the value of the lands ouer the charges that he paieth to the king by grand Ser∣ieantie: but hee that hol∣deth by Escuage shal paye for his reliefe but C. s.
Also those that bee in the Marches of Scot∣lande, that holdeth of the king by Cornage, that is to blow an horne when the Scottes enter into Eng∣land, are tenants in grand Serieantie.
Also where a man hol∣deth of the Kinge for to finde a man in his warres within the Realme, that is called graund Serie∣auntie, for that, that it is done by a Mans badic: And if the tenaunt cannot finde a man to doe it, then hee is bounde to doe it him selfe. And he that holdeth by graunde Serieauntie holdeth by Knightes ser∣uice, and the King shall haue, warde, marriage and reliefe, but not of them
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that holdeth by petit serie∣antie, but the king shal not haue of them that holde by graund serieantie escuage, except that they holde by escuage. So they that hold by graund Serieantie or Escuage hold by Knights seruice. But one may hold by graund Serieantie and not by escuage, and by Es∣cuage and not by graund Serieantie: And the Knights seruice alwayes draweth to him warde, mariage and reliefe.
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