Meaning Of The Word Heriot
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Heriot Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Heriot?
heriot in American English
a payment in chattels or money (orig., a restoration of arms, equipment, etc.) made to the lord from the possessions of a tenant who had died noun: a feudal service or tribute, originally of borrowed military equipment and later of a chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant heriot in British English noun: (in medieval England) a death duty paid by villeins and free tenants to their lord, often consisting of the dead man's best beast or chattel |
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