Lexicographical Neighbors of Subvassal
Literary usage of Subvassal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson (1918)
"... there being nothing to prevent a subvassal from accepting a fief directly from
the king, or from any other neighboring noble landholder. ..."
2. Conveyancing According to the Law of Scotland: Being the Lectures of the by Allan Menzies, James Mitford Morison, John Hunter (1857)
"For, as the subvassal did not hold of the superior, he could not authorize
resignation, which can only be done by an entered vassal. ..."
3. New Medieval and Modern History by Samuel Bannister Harding, Albert Bushnell Hart (1918)
"The arrow indicates a lord to whom homage is done and from whom one or more fiefs
are held. subvassal ... ^subvassal German Emperor subvassal ..."
4. The Principles of the Law of Scotland: In the Order of Sir G. Mackenzie's by John Erskine, George Mackenzie (1827)
"... the vas- ^elided" sal, must make a part of that vassal's single escheat, under
it and so goes to the King; because the vassal's right to the subvassal's ..."
5. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson (1903)
"A considerable number of the vassals of the count held lands of other lords,
there being nothing to prevent a subvassal from accepting a fief directly from ..."
6. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1824)
"... not on his own life, but on that of the subvassal ; and therefore necessarily
falls to the King by the single escheat, and not to the vassal's immediate ..."
7. Conveyancing According to the Law of Scotland Being the Lectures of the Late by Allan Menzies (1863)
"These are the superior, the vassal, the subvassal, ... For, as the subvassal
didnot hold of the superior, he could not authorize resignation, which can only ..."
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