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feudal law

n. 1 (context literally English) A feudal law. 2 (context absolute use English) The legislation governing feudal matters, such as the procedures, (mutual) rights and duties concerning fiefs, feudal lords and their enfeoffed vassals.

Usage examples of "feudal law".

The law of primogeniture was established, and the right of the feudal law was superior to that of the political or civil institution.

They could lean on custom and feudal law once to preserve them from summary usage, but custom and law are being thrust out of court now.

Adams, who had earlier joined a new law club in Boston started by Jeremiah Gridley, had, at Gridley's suggestion, been working on an essay that would become A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law.

At the height of the crisis, John Adams published in the Boston Gazette A Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law.

It was easy to forget this, until some word or incident reminded you - that this pleasant house and estate were like a medieval castle, under feudal law.

However, the way the power shifts seem to work within the vampire world are very much like old feudal law—.