Knight's Fee in United States
Knight’s Fee Definition
The word is a compound word, and may comprehend many things. And therefore by the grant of this may pass land, meadow and pasture as parcel of it. Anciently so much of an inheritance in land as was sufficient to maintain a knight; and every man possessed of such an estate was obliged to be knighted, and attend the king in his wars, or pay a pecuniary sum in lieu thereof, called “escuage.” In the time of Henry II. the estate was estimated at twenty pounds a year; but Lord Coke, in his time, states it to bo an estate of six hundred and eighty acres. Co. Litt. 69, 69a. According to Selden, however, it did not consist of land of a fixed extent or value, but It was as much as the Idng was pleased to grant, upon the condition of having the service of one knight Tit of Hon. part 2, §§ 17, 26.
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The word is a compound word, and may comprehend many things. And therefore by the grant of this may pass land, meadow and pasture as parcel of it. Anciently so much of an inheritance in land as was sufficient to maintain a knight; and every man possessed of such an estate was obliged to be knighted, and attend the king in his wars, or pay a pecuniary sum in lieu thereof, called “escuage.” In the time of Henry II. the estate was estimated at twenty pounds a year; but Lord Coke, in his time, states it to bo an estate of six hundred and eighty acres. Co. Litt. 69, 69a. According to Selden, however, it did not consist of land of a fixed extent or value, but It was as much as the Idng was pleased to grant, upon the condition of having the service of one knight Tit of Hon. part 2, §§ 17, 26.
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