lord+paramount
81States of the Church — • Consists of the civil territory which for over 1000 years (754 1870) acknowledged the pope as temporal ruler Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. States of the Church States of the Church …
82suzerain — n. Feudal lord, liege lord, lord paramount …
83de medio — /diy miydiyow/ A writ in the nature of a writ of right, which lay where upon a subinfeudation the mesne (or middle) lord suffered his under tenant or tenant paravail to be distrained upon by the lord paramount for the rent due him from the mesne… …
84dominium — /daminiyam/ In the civil and old English law, ownership; property in the largest sense, including both the right of property and the right of possession or use. The mere right of property, as distinguished from the possession or usufruct. The… …
85liege — In feudal law, bound by a feudal tenure; bound in allegiance to the lord paramount, who owned no superior. The term was applied to the lord, or liege lord, to whom allegiance was due, since he was bound to protection and a just government, and… …
86de medio — /diy miydiyow/ A writ in the nature of a writ of right, which lay where upon a subinfeudation the mesne (or middle) lord suffered his under tenant or tenant paravail to be distrained upon by the lord paramount for the rent due him from the mesne… …
87dominium — /daminiyam/ In the civil and old English law, ownership; property in the largest sense, including both the right of property and the right of possession or use. The mere right of property, as distinguished from the possession or usufruct. The… …
88liege — In feudal law, bound by a feudal tenure; bound in allegiance to the lord paramount, who owned no superior. The term was applied to the lord, or liege lord, to whom allegiance was due, since he was bound to protection and a just government, and… …
89tenant paravail — The tenant of a tenant. Under the feudal system, if the king granted a manor to A, and A granted a portion of the land to B, then B was said to hold of A, and A, of the king. In other words, B held his lands immediately of A, but mediately of the …
90writ of mesne — A writ which lay for a tenant paravail against a mesne lord for permitting a distress to be levied by the lord paramount by reason of the default of the mesne lord, the damage of the plaintiff, the tenant paravail …
