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Heordfæte or Hudefæst
Heordfæte or Hudefæst
Defined in 1 dictionary —
Black's (1910)
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A.
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1910
In Saxon law. A master of a family, keeping house, distinguished from a lower class of freemen, viz., folgeras, (Jolgarii,) who had no habitations of their own, but were house-retainers of their lords.