Drengage
Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The tenure by which the drenches (g. i;.) held their lands. Spelman.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A variety of feudal tenure by serjeanty (q. v.), often occurring in the northern counties of England, involving a kind of general service. Vinogradoff, Engl. Soc. in Eleventh Cent. 62. Little is known of it; 3 Holdsw. Hist. E. L. 132.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
In old English law. The tenure by which the drenches held their lands.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
The tenure by which the drenches, or drenges, held their lands,
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
[L. Lat. drengagium.] The tenure by which the drenches (q. v.) held their lands. Spelman.