knight's fee (English, noun)
expansion: knight's fee (plural knights' fees)
Senses:
topics: law
glosses: A kind of land tenure requiring military service to the land's chief lord as an obligation to maintain possession.
tags: historical
topics: law
glosses: The specific amount of land giving rise to such requirements generally, being sometimes a hide or less and sometimes six or more hides.
tags: historical
Forms:
form: knights' fees
tags: plural