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- noun
tenure in return forreligious duty orservice
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Before the coming of the Conqueror and his feudal lawyers much land in England had been acquired to be held by the spiritual tenure of frankalmoign, a tenure subjecting the holders to what was termed the trinoda necessitas f (or threefold obligation) of repairing highways, building castles, and repelling invasions, but otherwise to no service other than praying for the souls of the donor and his heirs, dead or alive (Stephen, op. cit.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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