Petit Serjeanty
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A tenure by which lands are held of the crown by the service of rendering yearly some small implement of war, as a lance, an arrow, etc. 2 Bl. Comm. 82. Though St. 12 Car. II. took away the incidents of livery and primer seisin, this tenure still remains a dignified branch of socage tenure, from which it only differs in name on account of its reference to war. Such is the tenure of the grants to the dukes of Marlborough and Wellington. PETIT (or PETTY) TREASON.
In English law. The killing of a master by his servant, a husband by his wife, a superior by a religious man. 4 Bl. Comm. 73. In the United States this is like any other murder. See "Treason."
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
See Serjeanty.