 | Henry Hallam - 1818 - 554 pages
...promised to become his man from thenceforward ; to serve him with life, and limb and worldly honour, faithfully and loyally, in consideration of the lands which he held under him. None but the lord in person could accept homage, which was commonly concluded by a kiss.-f- 2. An oath... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - 1835 - 806 pages
...and promised to become hia man from thenceforth ; to serve him with life and limb and worldly honour, faithfully and loyally, in consideration of the. lands which he held under him. None but the lord in person could accept homage, which was commonly concluded with a kiss. 2. An oath... | |
 | Sir Francis Palgrave - 1844 - 168 pages
...man (or homme, from whence the term homage); to serve -him with life, and limb, and worldly honour, faithfully and loyally, in consideration of the lands which he held under him. If, as sometimes happened, the vassal made war against his own lord; it was necessary for him previously... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1846 - 610 pages
...promised to become his man from thenceforward ; to serve him with life and limb and worldly honour, faithfully and loyally, in consideration of the lands which he held under him. None but the lord in person could accept homage, which was commonly concluded by a kiss.* 2. An oath... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1853 - 532 pages
...promised to become his man from thenceforward ; to serve him with life and limb and worldly honour, faithfully and loyally, in consideration of the lands which he held under him. None but the lord in person could accept homage, which was commonly concluded by a kiss.t £. An oath... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1855 - 566 pages
...some for life, and a few were invested with hereditary rights. Those of the latter, • Blaokstone's Commentaries. by the ordinary laws of all human society,...necessary for the establishment of every fief; but diflfered little in substance, or in language, from the mode of doing homage. Investiture was of two... | |
 | William Farr - 1857 - 52 pages
...performing homage for a fief — the pay of an office — the vassal promised to be the lord's man, " to serve him with life and limb, faithfully and loyally,...consideration of the lands which he held under him." The great officers of State who had fiefs evidently stood in the place of the peers, the higher orders... | |
 | Johann Martin Lappenberg - 1857 - 554 pages
...promised . to become his man from thenceforward ; to serve him with life and limb and worldly honour, faithfully and loyally, in consideration of the lands which he held under him. None but the lord in person could accept homage, which was usually concluded with a kiss. 2. The oath... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1868 - 378 pages
...promised to become his man from thenceforward ; to serve him with life and limb and worldly honour, faithfully and loyally, in consideration of the lands which he held under him. None but the lord in person could accept homage, which was commonly concluded by a kiss.3 z. An oath... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1871 - 672 pages
...promised to become his man from thenceforward ; to serve him with life and limb and worldly honour, faithfully and loyally, in consideration of the lands which he held under him. None but the lord iu JHTSOII could accept homage, which was commonly concluded by a kiss. 2. An oath... | |
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... devotedness of the vassal towards his lord. In performing homage, his head was uncovered, his belt ungirt, his sword and spurs removed ; he placed his hands, kneeling, between those of the lord, and promised to become his man from thenceforward ;... 
