knight's service — noun land tenure by service to the lord as a knight • Hypernyms: ↑service * * * noun see knight service … Useful english dictionary
knight's service — Upon the Norman conquest, all the lands in England were divided into knight s fees, in number above sixty thousand. For every knight s fee, a knight was bound to attend the king in his wars forty days in a year, in which space of time a campaign… … Black's law dictionary
knight's service — Upon the Norman conquest, all the lands in England were divided into knight s fees, in number above sixty thousand. For every knight s fee, a knight was bound to attend the king in his wars forty days in a year, in which space of time a campaign… … Black's law dictionary
Knight-service — was the dominant and distinctive tenure of land as a fief associated with a knight under the English feudal system.Early historyIt is associated in its origin with that development in warfare which made the mailed horseman, armed with lance and… … Wikipedia
Knight service — Knight serv iceAlso Knight s service Knight s service . 1. (Feud. Law) The military service by rendering which a knight held his lands. 2. (Eng. Feud. Law) A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
knight service — noun also knight s service Etymology: Middle English knightes service 1. : the military service by rendering which a knight held his lands; also : the tenure of lands held on condition of performing military service … Useful english dictionary
Knight's fee — was a feudal term used in mediæval England and Anglo Norman Ireland to describe the value of land. It is also sometimes called scutage.Feudalism was a system under which the land was exchanged for military service, thus everything was based on… … Wikipedia
knight´like´ — knight «nyt», noun, verb. –n. 1. in the Middle Ages: a) a man raised to an honorable military rank and pledged to do good deeds. After serving as a page and squire, a man was made a knight by the king or a lord. b) a military servant of a lord,… … Useful english dictionary
Knight Foundry — oder auch Knight s Foundry and Shops war eine Gießerei für Gussteile sowie ein Metallbearbeitungsbetrieb in der Eureka Street von Sutter Creek, Kalifornien. Die Anlage wurde 1873 gebaut, um schwere Ausrüstungsteile für die Goldminen und… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Knight’s Foundry and Shops — Knight Foundry Knight’s Foundry and Shops oder auch Knight Foundry war eine Gießerei für Gussteile sowie ein Metallbearbeitungsbetrieb in der Eureka Street von Sutter Creek, Kalifornien. Die Anlage wurde 1873 gebaut, um schwere Ausrüstungsteile… … Deutsch Wikipedia
