Commendation
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In feudal law. Commendation was where an owner of land placed himself and his land under the protection of a lord, so as to constitute himself his vassal or feudal tenant. Commendation, and the grant of beneficia or feuds, were the two principal modes by which the feudal system was established.
See 1 Stubbs, Const. Hist. 153.