Feudal System
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a feudal system that never existed in England · fee · feudal chiefs · feudal conditions · feudal system · feudal systems · the feudal system · vassalage
in the texts
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The historical system of land tenure in which kings and barons held property in vassalage, identified as the origin of the English and inherited American notion of a governmental sovereignty over property.
It would prove that the notion of a sovereignty over private property was derived in England from the feudal system, and borrowed by us from England.
A power in congress of annexing conditions to the admission of states into the union would be in its nature monarchical, and analogous to the feudal systems.
But, this feudal power of annexing conditions to the settlement of a conquered or acquired territory, by the government of the country making the acquisition, has even been exploded as tyrannical both here and in England.
The Rights of War and Peace
The system of land grants in exchange for military service, cited as a mixed contract
The feudal system too might be considered as a train of mixed contracts.
The Genius of the Common Law
A supposed feudal system uncritically believed by generations of English text-writers to have existed in England, which the author states never did.
Through successive generations, for about two centuries, English text-writers were ready, now to ascribe magical influence to ‘the civil law,’ of which they seldom knew a word at first hand, now to swallow legends of a feudal system that never existed in England, or again to fly to the other extreme and swear by a ‘mark system’ that never existed anywhere.