The relationship might be personal or, if the vassal received a fief, tenurial. [noun]
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A fief was the land held by a vassal of a lord in return for stipulated services, chiefly military. [noun]
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--It's ill o' the vassal's mouth that betrays the bread it eats.' [noun]
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My hounds may a' rin masterless, My hawks may fly frae tree to tree, My lord may grip my vassal lands, For there again maun I never be.' [noun]
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--but there was none, ye fause-hearted vassal that ye are. [noun]
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Now, just as the under vassal had no communication with the king except through the direct vassal, so also the commoners could enter no complaints except through the commune. [noun]
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By fair means or foul, every proprietor who could not be a chief was forced to be a vassal. [noun]
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