Feudal

Examples

• In many points of detail the vassal's services differed widely in different parts of the feudal world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mr Dorrit was in the habit of receiving this old man as if the old man held of him in vassalage under some feudal tenure. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The feudal state was one in which, it has been said, private law had usurped the place of public law. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Jesuit accounts describe a country greatly devastated by perpetual feudal war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Feudal princes began to regard themselves as independent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is a mistake to imagine that those territorial jurisdictions took their origin from the feudal law. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• After the institution of feudal subordination, the king was as incapable of restraining the violence of the great lords as before. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Shang (1750 to 1125 B.C.) and Chow (1125 to 250 B.C.) are named as being the two great dynasties of the feudal period. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Poland, where the feudal system still continues to take place, is at this day as beggarly a country as it was before the discovery of America. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• No feudal baron in _Magna Charta_ times could have more thoroughly resented some incursion of the crown. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Dr. Arnold was doubtless right when he looked upon the railway as presaging the end of the feudal system. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The reign of Shi-Hwang-ti (meaning first universal emperor) of this dynasty is usually taken to mark the end of feudal and divided China. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Led by several of the nobles, it made a clean sweep, in a series of resolutions, of serfdom, privileges, tax exemptions, tithes, feudal courts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• By a feudal law, the vassal could not alienate without the consent of his superior, who generally extorted a fine or composition on granting it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The casualties of the feudal law were taxes upon the transference of land, both from the dead to the living, and from the living to the living. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Though the feudal system has been abolished in Spain and Portugal, it has not been succeeded by a much better. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Did not the French Revolution mean the conquest of the feudal landlord by the middle-class merchant? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The introduction of the feudal law, so far from extending, may be regarded as an attempt to moderate, the authority of the great allodial lords. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The analogy of the aggregation of feudal groupings with crystallization is a very close one. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Hence Sir Leicester yields up his family legs to the family disorder as if he held his name and fortune on that feudal tenure. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We use the term 'feudal system' for convenience' sake, but with a degree of impropriety if it conveys the meaning 'systematic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These troubles interwove with the feudal conflicts of the time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It seems to have been a common practice among our ancestors during the violence of the feudal government. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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