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Fidelitas

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Lat. Fealty, (q. v.) Fidelitas. De nullo tenemento, quod tenetur ad terminum, fit homagii; fit tamen inde fidelitatis sacramentum.

Co. Litt. 676. Fealty.

For no tenement which is held for a term is there the oath of homage, but there is the oath of fealty.