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SUBINFEUDATION , in See also:English See also:law, the practice by which tenants, holding See also:land under the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king or other See also:superior See also:lord, carved out in their turn by subletting or alienating a See also:part of their lands new and distinct tenures. The tenants were termed " See also:mesne-lords," with regard to those holding from them, the immediate See also:tenant being tenant in capite. The lowest tenant of all was the freeholder, or, as he was sometimes termed tenant paravail. The See also:Crown, who in theory owned all lands, was lord See also:paramount.' The See also:great lords looked with dissatisfaction on the increase of such subtenures. Accordingly in 1290 a See also:statute was passed, Quia empbores, which allowed the tenant to alienate whenever he pleased, but the alienee or See also:person to whom he granted was to hold the land not of the alienor but of the same immediate lord, and by the same services as the alienor held it before.
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