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* FEALTY *
Fidelity, allegiance.
FEALTY. Fidelity, allegiance.
2. Under the feudal system, every owner of lands held them of some superior lord, from whom or from whose ancestors, the tenant had received them.
Roland swears fealty to Charlemagne; from a manuscript of a chanson de geste.
Further information: Symbel and Feudalism
Germanic warrior culture was significantly based on oaths of fealty, directly continued into medieval notions of chivalry.
And therefore they shall do no fealty to their lord, because that this divine service is better for them before God than any doing of fealty" (Litt. s. 135).
The condition annexed was, that the possessor should do service faithfully, at home and in war, to him by whom they were given; for which purpose he took the oath of fealty, and for a breach of this condition and oath, ...
The concept, idea or philosophy of property underlies all property law. In some jurisdictions, historically all property was owned by the monarch and it devolved through feudal land tenure or other feudal systems of loyalty and fealty.
independent ownership, in like manner as personal property is held; the entire right and dominion; that it applies to lands held of no superior to whom the owner owes homage or fealty or military service, ...
 See also: Law, Were, Person, Count, Right
  
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