Divine Service
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A species of feudal tenure, by which the tenant was required to say masses, to distribute such a sum in alms or the like. It differed from frankalmoign in that, for breach of a duty of divine service, the lord could destrain without complaint to the visitor; the particular service being always expressly defined and prescribed.
2 Bl. Comm. 102.