HOMAGE - Steven J. Coker
Subject: HOMAGE
From: Steven J. Coker
Date: November 05, 1998

Extracted From:
  A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856
  by John Bouvier, CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA

HOMAGE, Eng. law. An acknowledgment made by the vassal in the presence of his
lord, that he is his man, that is, his subject or vassal. The form in law French
was, Jeo deveigne vostre home. 
   Homage was liege and feudal. The former was paid to the king, the latter to
the lord. Liege, was borrowed from the French, as Thaumas informs us, and seems
to have meant a service that was personal and inevitable....

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