Liberum Servitium
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Free service; service of a warlike sort by a feudatory tenant; sometimes called servitium liherum armorum. Somn. Gavelkind, p. 56; Jacob; 4 Coke, 9. Service not unbecoming character of freemen and soldiers to perform; as, to serve under the lord in his wars, to pay a sum of money, and the like. 2 Bl. Comm. 60. The tenure of free service does not make a villein a free man, unless homage or manumission precede, any more than a tenure by villein services makes a freeman a villein. Bracton, fol. 24.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Free service, which see.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Free service. Service of a warlike sort by a feudatory tenant; sometimes calied "servitium Uberum armorum." Jacob. Service not unbecoming the character of a freeman and a soldier to perform; as to serve under the lord in his wars, to pay a sum of money, and the like. 2 Bl. Comm. 60.