Relieve
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In feudal law. To hold or depend; thus, a tenant was said to relieve of the crown. Now obsolete. RELIGION (Lat. re, back, ligo, to bind). Real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to God and our fellow men. Any system of faith and worship; as the religion of the Turks, of Hindoos, of Christians; true and false religion. 200 111. 572.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In feudal law, relieve is to depend; thus, the seigniory of a tenant in capite relieves of the crown, meaning that the tenant holds of the crown. The term is not common in English writers. Sweet.