Sentence examples for free tenant from inspiring English sources
The rights of the nonfreeholders who held land of the free tenant, however, became obscured by the fact that they were not protected in the king's courts.
It became profitable to have free tenant farmers, rather than serfs, cultivate the land, which attracted large groups of settlers from as far away as the Rhineland and the Low Countries.
In the 16th century the process that had operated at the end of the 12th century to consolidate ownership rights in the free tenant was replicated for the copyholder, the descendants of those who held land by unfree tenure.
What began as essentially an appellate jurisdiction, offered by the king in his court to ensure that a feudal lord did right by his men, ended with the free tenant being the owner of the land, in a quite modern sense, with the lord's rights limited to receipt of money payments.
What began as essentially an appellate jurisdiction, offered by the king in his court to ensure that a feudal lord did not cheat those who were subordinate to him, ended with the free tenant being the owner of the land, in a quite modern sense, with the lord's rights limited to receipt of money payments.
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In most areas of Europe lords' courts remained a significant force for a much longer period, even for free tenants.
In the 10th century, Italian landowners increasingly took money rents rather than crops from at least their free tenants, as is known from their surviving written contracts (libelli).
The lord would grant part of his land out to free tenants to hold at a rent or by military or other service.
Whereas the mark of free tenants was that their services were always predetermined, in unfree tenure they were not; the unfree tenant never knew what he might be called to do for his lord.
An English manor, a swath of territory held by a landlord, accommodated both free tenants who paid rent as well as unfree tenants (villeins) who occupied their land in return for their services to the lord.
