Free Services
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Such as it was not unbecoming the character of a soldier or freeman to perform; as, to serve under his lord in the wars, to pay a sum of money, and the like. 2 Bl. Comm. 62; 1 Washb. Real Prop. 25.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Such as it was not unbecoming the character of a soldier or freeman to perform; as, to serve under his lord In the wars, to pay a sum of money, and the like. 2 Bla. Com. C2; 1 Washb. R. P. 25.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In feudal and old English law. Such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freeman to perform ; as to serve under hls lord in the wars, to pay a sum of money, and the like. 2 Bl. Comm. 60, 61.
Defined under Free in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In feudal and old English law. Such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freeman to perform; as to serve under his lord in the wars, to pay a sum of money, and the like. 2 Bl, Comm, 60, 61.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
[L. Lat. libera servitia.] In feudal and old English law. Such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freeman to perform; as to serve under his lord in the wars, to pay a sum of money, and the like. 2 Bl. Com, 60, 61. Bracton makes a wide distinction between holding freelg and holdinff by free sfrvice. Est longe aliud tenere libere, et aliud tenere per liberum servitium; quia, quamvis quis teneat per liberum servitium, non tamen propter hoc tenet libere, quia tenementum quod conceditur villano, tenendum per liberum servitium, non facit villanum liberum, nisi teneat libere, non magis quam v Ulenagium facit liberum hominem villanum, si liber homx> teneat per villanas con^ suetudines; quia tenementum nihil confert nee detrahit persona, dtc. It is one thing to hold freely, and a far different thing to hold by free service; because, though one may hold by free service, yet he does not on this account hold freely; because a tenement which is granted to a villein to hold by free service, does not make the villein a freeman, unless he hold freely, any more than villeinage makes a free man a villein, if a freeman hold by villein customs; because the tenement neither adds to noi* takes from the person, <&c. Bract, fol. 24 b.