Homage Ancestral

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Homage was so called where time out of mind a man and his ancestors had held by homage; and in this case the lord who had received the homage was bound to acquit the tenant of all services to superior lords, and, if vouched, to warrant his title. If the tenage ancestral. Termes de la Ley; 2 Sharswood, BI. Comm. 300.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

That homage the duty to render which had descended from one’s ancestors.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Homage was so called where time out of mind a man and his ancestors had held by homage; and in this case the lord who had received the homage was bound to acquit the tenant of all services to superior lords, and, if vouched, to warrant his title. If the tenant by homage ancestral aliened in fee, his alienee held by homage, but not by homage ancestral. Termes de la Ley; 2 Bla. Com. 300.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In feudal law. Homage was called by this name where a man and his ancestors had immemorially held of another and hls ancestors by the service of homage, which bound the lord to warrant the title, and also to hold the tenant clear of all services to superior lords. If the tenant aliened in fee, his alienee was a tenant by homage, but not by homage ancestral. Litt. § 143; 2 Bl. Comm. 300

Defined under Homage in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In feudal law. Homage was called by this name where amanand his ancestors had immemorially held of another and his ancestors by the service of homage, whieh bound the lord to warrant the title, and also to hold the tenant clear of all services to superior lords. If the tenant aliened in fee, his alienee was a ten-