capite

About 0.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An ancient English tenure, abolished in 1660, by which either person or land was held immediately of the king, or of his crown, by either knight service or socage.

Similar words

minutus great fee socmanry tenant burgage copyhold geneat chiefrie serjeanty ward

Often followed by

of et censi by ad in thoraceque velato or