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Meaning of "serjeanty" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SERJEANTY

ˈsɑːdʒəntɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SERJEANTY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Serjeanty is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SERJEANTY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Serjeanty

Under the feudal system in late and high medieval England, tenure by serjeanty was a form of land-holding in return for some specified service, ranking between tenure by knight-service and tenure in socage. It is also used of similar forms in Continental Europe.

Definition of serjeanty in the English dictionary

The definition of serjeanty in the dictionary is a type of feudal tenure accompanied by an obligation to serve the king in a specified personal capacity.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SERJEANTY

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SERJEANTY

seriously · seriousness · seriph · serjeancy · serjeant · serjeant at arms · serjeant at law · serjeantry · serjeantship · Serlio · sermon · Sermon on the Mount · sermoneer · sermonet · sermonette · sermonic · sermonical · sermonise · sermoniser

WORDS THAT END LIKE SERJEANTY

banty · canty · chanty · implied warranty · janty · panty · scanty · sea shanty · shanty · slanty · wanty

Synonyms and antonyms of serjeanty in the English dictionary of synonyms

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SERJEANTY»

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The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume II: 871-1216
37, also states that holding of a small serjeanty, for example for the service of rendering knives or arrows to the king, was not to lead to prerogative wardship.“o Such renders, as well as personal services, were characteristic of serjeanties but  ...
John Hudson, 2012
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Britton; the French Text Carefully Revised with an English ...
GCllW. i. so LNS. hostours DM. estoars G. cstouers Cll. estors ARWF. 6. Grand serjeanty is a service due from a tenement, which service concerns the defence of the country; as to be Marshal or to set our host in battle, or to find a man mounted ...
Francis Morgan Nichols, 1865
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The Law-dictionary: Explaining the Rise, Progress, and ...
Petit Serjeanty, is where a man holds lands of the King, to furnish him yearly with some small thing towards his wars; and in effect payable as rent. Though all tenures are turned into socage by stat. 12 Car. 2. c. 24. yet the honorary services of ...
Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, 1811
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Serviens Ad Legem: A Report of Proceedings Before the ...
Land in Mawerdin, by the serjeanty of measuring the king's ditches and works at the king's cost ; other land was held there by the serjeanty of keeping the gate of the castle of Hereford, receiving one penny a day from the king's purse (ft).
James Manning, 1840
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Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge
GRAND SERJEANTY (magna terjeantia, or magnum tervitium, great service), was the most honourable of the ancient feudal tenures. According to Lyttleton, tenure by grand serjeanty is where a man holds his lands or tenements of our ...
‎1868
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Littleton's Tenures: With Notes Explanatory of the Text of ...
is observable, that the proviso for this purpose is penned with an inaccuracy, which leads to a very mistaken idea of the incidents to grand serjeanty. The honorary services are preserved with a cautious exception of several burthensome ...
Sir Thomas Littleton, 1846
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The law-dictionary: explaining the rise, progress, and ...
24. yet the honorary services of grand Serjeanty still remain, being therein excepted. Lit. § 153. 159: 1 Inst. 105. 108. Knight-service propcr,(see title Tenures III. 2;) consisted in attending the King in his wars. There were also someother species ...
Giles Jacob, Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, 1811
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House of Commons Papers
It may be presumed; therefore, that the words " Liberi Homines" in this clause of the charter applied only to freehold tenants by military service, which included tenants by the service called grand serjeanty ; but not tenants by the service called ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1826
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dignity of a peer of the realm
The Charter of William exempted all the Lands of the Persons therein stiled " Liberi Homines" from all Tallage ; but it appears that the King's Tenants by Petit Serjeanty, Freehold Tenants of the King's Demesnes, and the Freehold Tenants of the ...
‎1824
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First report. 25th May 1820
The Charter of William exempted all the Lands of the Persons therein styled “ Liberi Homines ” from all Tallage ; but it appears that the King's Tenants by Petit Serjeanty, Freehold Tenants of the King's Demesnes, and the Freehold ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Committee on the Dignity of a Peer of the Realm, 1829

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SERJEANTY»

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We are proud to be one of their clients," said Matthew Lewis of Serjeanty and Global Holdings. In addition to connecting employers with top-notch personnel, ... «PR Newswire, May 13»
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