Law can exist without jurisprudence, but law without jurisprudence is uncertain. When a feudal contract passedįrom one generation to another, the bonds that the contract cemented were renewed in publicĬeremonies that reminded each party of its obligations and duties. Theįeudal contract could be inherited and broken for political reasons. Political relationships the feudal contract had several advantages over a contract in Roman law. The bestowal of fiefs, the rights of lords and vassals, and the complicated property rights of fiefsĮmerge from unwritten, ill-defined, customary chaos in which rules and principles were fluid. Word feudal is derived, is found in early sources, it replaces beneficium as the standard word toĭescribe a fief only during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Although the word, “feudum,” from which the English In the period from 800 to 1150, the word that described a fief (sometimes, but not always,Ī piece of land) a was generally beneficium. Vassal swore homage and fealty to the lord. Relationship in later law: a lord bestowed a fief upon a vassal in return for military service. Vassal relationship that historians of the mid-twentieth century often used to describe the feudal In early medieval sources, they cannot simply assume that these words describe the same lord and Historians have learned that when they find these words Jurists would carefully analyze and define. The sources from the period 800 toġ000 contain terms like lord (dominus), vassal (vassalus), fief (beneficium or feudum) that later was primarily based upon unwritten customary usages. The law regulating the relationships of lords and vassals in the period before ca. Supplement 1 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons-Thompson-Gale, 2004: 320-323 "Law, Feudal," Dictionary of the Middle Ages:
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