Military tenure, tenure of land, on condition of performing military service.
We have, therefore, in them our best starting-point for an inquiry into the origin and growth ofmilitary tenure in England.
The land revenue, I am told, is very trifling, the whole almost being held by military tenure; but I did not learn the particulars.
In fact, the Mogul system of finance had been completely introduced, while in the mountains the Hindu system of military tenure seems to have been more completely retained.
It is otherwise with the relief (relevium), the duty levied for the resumption of the holding by the heir: it extends equally to military tenure and to villainage.
The maritagium of military tenure of course has nothing in common with it, being paid only by the heiress of a fee, and resulting from the control of the military lord over the land of his retainer.
In the law books of the time the free but non-military tenure has to be characterised not merely as socage, but as free socage: this fact will give us a second clue in analysing the condition.
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