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Heordfate

Defined in 1 dictionary — Black's (1891)

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

or HUDEFAST.

In Saxon law. A master of a family, keeping house, distinguished from a lower class of freemen, viz., folgeras, (folgarit,) who had no habitations of their own, but were houseretainers of their lords.