Ward Holding
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In old Scotch law. Military tenure by which lands were held. It was so called from the yearly tax In commutation of the right to hold vassals' lands during minority. It was abolished in 1747. Burton, Law Scot. p.
375; Bell, Diet.