Servitium
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
The old law-Latin word for service (q. u.), in the sense of a duty owed to a feudal superior.
Servitium liberum
A sort of free or liberal service which certain feudatory tenants, called Kberi homines, were bound to perform; and as these tenants themselves were different from vassals, so were their services of a more honorable nature, — as to attend the lord's court, to find a man and horse to go with the lord into the army, and such like. Cowel. Servitium regale. Royal service, or the rights and prerogatives of manors which belong to the king as lord of the same, and which were generally reckoned to be six; viz., power of judicature, in matters of property; power of life and death, in felonies and murders; a right to waifs and straj's; assessments; minting of money; and assise of bread, heer, weights, and measures.
Cowel.