Knight's Fee
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Stimson (1881)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The word is a compound word, and may comprehend many things. And therefore by the grant of this may pass land, meadow and pasture as parcel of it. Anciently so much of an inheritance in land as was sufficient to maintain a knight; and every man possessed of such an estate was obliged to be knighted, and attend the king in his wars, or pay a pecuniary sum in lieu thereof, called "escuage." In the time of Henry II. the estate was estimated at twenty pounds a year; but Lord Coke, in his time, states it to bo an estate of six hundred and eighty acres. Co. Litt. 69, 69a. but It was as much as the Idng was pleased to grant, upon the condition of having the service of one knight Tit of Hon. part 2, §§ 17, 26.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
So much land as was considered tain a knight (twelve ploughlands); the estate was formerly obliged to be knighted in wars or pay escuage.