Heriots survive to this day in many manors, a true badge of the ancient servility of the tenure.
And the lawyer Slone, standing upon that mound had bidden them go back to their byres and, peaceably, to do suit and service and pay their heriots and rent-hens and bolls of corn and the rest.
And, for the men out of the sea, they shall be excused all rent-hens and services and heriots that they owe me.
The bondsman began to cry out then, that if they had paid their tributes, heriots and what not to the bailiff of the false pretenders, they would have none wherewith to pay the Young Lovell's bailiff when he came in turn as come he would.
And those three cunning men had further answered the bailiff that they were very willing to pay rent-hens and tythes and heriots and pence and whatever was rightfully to be had of them.
Under the earlier acts, machinery to free the land from the burden of the old rents, fines and heriots was set up, commuting them into a rent charge or a fine.
Instances have occurred of articles of great value being seized as heriots for the copyhold tenements of their owners.
Here and there, too, we come upon heriots remitted because the heir was so very poor, and here and there fines and fees are cancelled causa miseriæ propter pestilentiam.
They are seldom found in graves, however, whether owing to the custom ofheriots or to the fact that, on account of their relatively high value, they were frequently handed on from generation to generation as heirlooms.
Amongst the rest he is declared to have sold "eighty oxen and cows which had come to the house as mortuaries or heriots of tenants who had died in the great pestilence.
Holders of land under the lord of the manor came before the court to claim their tenements and land as the rightful heirs of tenants deceased, to pay their heriots or fines due to the lord on every entry of a new holder.
Heriots is a manorial impost about which some curious information has at various times been published.
Many lords of manors and landlords have during the last half century allowed many of their rights in this direction to drop, while others have put on small money payments in lieu both of heriots and services.
And yet when the Heriots lost an aged father in July, and hurried across England to the funeral, who but the gallant Spook should volunteer to look after the house in their absence!
Let's have a look," said Carpenter, as they waited for the Heriots in hall; and a look was quite enough.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heriots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
