Feudal or other agrarian societies, which focus upon land use and land ownership, may tend to " honour " more than do contemporary industrial societies.

* Feudal land ownership, through fiefdoms

Feudal land tenures existed in several varieties, most of which involved the tenant having to supply some service to his overlord, such as knight-service ( military service ).

In Scotland, until the Abolition of Feudal Tenure ( Scotland ) Act of 2000, the transfer of such a prescriptive barony required some interest in land, specifically the caput baronium ( the seat of the barony ).

Dominium directum ( Feudal ): the right of the lord ( i. e., the right to direct ) in the disposition of an asset ( typically land ).

Dominium utile ( Feudal ): the right of use and utility of an asset, and to keep the benefits ( such as the right to live on the land, and to keep the profits from agriculture ).

* Feudal land tenure, a system of mutual obligations under which a royal or noble personage granted a fiefdom — some degree of interest in the use or revenues of a given parcel of land — in exchange for a claim on services such as military service or simply maintenance of the land in which the lord continued to have an interest.

Feudal land tenure existed in many varieties.

Prior to the Act coming into effect, Scottish Feudal Baronies ( including Lordships and Earldoms ) were the only genuine title of UK nobility capable of being transferred following the sale of land containing a " caput " ( or the sale of a feudal superiority ).

* Feudal land tenure

Knight-service was a form of Feudal land tenure under which a knight held a fief or estate of land termed a knight's fee ( fee being synonymous with fief ) from an overlord conditional on him as tenant performing military service for his overlord.

In addition, Sakai created a limited spin off series called Space Usagi featuring characters similar to those in the original series, including a descendant of Miyamoto Usagi, but set in a futuristic setting that also emulated Feudal Japan in political and stylistic ways.

Wharton ’ s political views were so far removed from the mainstream that they ’ re practically unclassifiable – a feudalist and a rabid reactionary, certainly ( he invented the fictitious Feudal and Reactionary Herald ).

The role of nobles in the Feudal System had yielded to the notion of the Divine Right of Kings during the Middle Ages ( in fact, this consolidation of power from the land-owning nobles to the titular monarchs was one of the most prominent themes of the Middle Ages ).

The Feudal Lords had the power of life and death and exercised a kind of " imperium-in-imperio ".

Feudal lords gained or lost social power according to how well they accommodated this new class of people into their domains and ' courts '.

Pocock, whose The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law ( 1957 ) was a significant early influence.

* Feudal society-bureaucratic feudalism-Tang to the First Opium War

* Feudal society-semicolonial era-First Opium War to end of Qing dynasty

* History of the Great Feudal War

During the Great Feudal War in the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Tver once again rose to prominence and concluded defensive alliances with Lithuania, Novgorod, Byzantium, and the Golden Horde.

Vasily II of Moscow, engaged in the Great Feudal War against his cousins, was defeated in a battle near Suzdal, and was forced to pay ransom to the Kazan khan.

Dmitry Shemyaka and other local princes pressed their claims to the Muscovite crown, and three of them actually took possession of the Kremlin in the course of the Great Feudal War.

Feudal rights were invested in the sovereign, with the local lord retaining some duties as enforcer of local justice and intermediary between the new inhabitants — required to build houses within a specified time, often a year — and the representatives of the sovereign.

Feudal Japan had a complex system of heraldry, just like medieval Europe did, complete with family crests ( mon ) and a variety of flags to distinguish lords, clans, or individual warriors on the battlefield.

He published a large work, available in a two-volume English translation as Feudal Society.

Yet after 1413, we find it increasingly so used, and the list of landowners in 1431, printed in Feudal Aids, contains, besides knights, esquires, yeomen and husbandmen ( i. e. householders ), a fair number who are classed as " gentilman ".

The chief sources of information for the extent and development of knight-service are the returns ( cartae ) of the barons ( i. e. the tenants-in-chief ) in 1166, informing the king, at his request, of the names of their tenants by knight-service with the number of fees they held, supplemented by the payments for scutage recorded on the pipe rolls, by the later returns printed in the Book of Fees, and by the still later ones collected in Feudal Aids.

Feudal levies could only be raised for a fixed length of time before they returned home, forcing an end to a campaign ; mercenary forces, often called Brabançons after the Duchy of Brabant but actually recruited from across northern Europe, could operate all year long and provide a commander with more strategic options to pursue a campaign, but cost much more than equivalent feudal forces.

The Ottomans attempted to create peace by dividing Mt Lebanon into a Christian district and a Druze district, but this would merely create geographic powerbases for the warring parties, and it plunged the region back into civil conflict which included not only the sectarian warfare but a Maronite revolt against the Feudal class, which ended in 1858 with the overthrow of the old feudal system of taxes and levies.

Feudal baronies ( or " baronies by tenure ") are now obsolete in England and without any legal force but any such historical titles are held in gross, that is to say are deemed to be enveloped within a more modern extant peerage title also held by the holder, sometimes along with vestigial manorial rights and tenures by grand serjeanty.

The medieval period was now clearly separated into three distinct periods: Early Feudal, High and Late Chivalric Feudal, for each period with a distinct technology.

" Interregnum: the Oceana of James Harrington ", chapter 6 in Pocock, The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: a Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century, a reissue with a retrospect ( Cambridge: 1987 ; 1957 ); ISBN 0-521-31643-X.

In June 1991, Mohsin and Sethi's publishing company, Vanguard Books, released Tehmina Durrani's My Feudal Lord, a " politically explosive " book about her marriage with leading politician Mustafa Khar.

Genji is a game set in Feudal Japan with a similar playing style to the Onimusha series.

At first, he attempted to carry on the government without a change of principles, but he soon found it necessary to come to an understanding with the Feudal and Federal parties and was responsible for the conduct of the negotiations which in the elections of the same year gave a majority to the different groups of the National and Clerical opposition.

Stair's major legal work, The Institutions of the Law of Scotland deduced from its Originals, and collated with the Civil, Canon and Feudal Laws and with the Customs of Neighbouring Nations, shows influences from his philosophical training, his foreign travels, and Continental jurists as well as English lawyers.

Feudal property means immovable property, and includes everything that naturally goes with the property.

Feudal society ( Société féodale ) translated from the French by L. A. Manyon ; with a new foreword by T. S. Brown ( London ; New York: Routledge, 1989, c1961 ) ISBN 0-415-03917-7 ( hbk.

Chapter 37, " Feudal lords ," is a very short treatment of the words that form its title, with the intent of explaining their " real " meaning.

They are portrayed as having strict codes of honor while lacking knowledge in a more modern form of warfare, along with names taken from old Feudal Japanese positions like ninja and shogun.

Some of them were wealthy, owning Christian serfs in keeping with the Feudal system of the times.

It features a combination of role-playing and strategy elements, with arcade mini-games set in Feudal Japan.