Vocabulary for Magna Carta
- Archbishop: The chief bishop responsible for an archdiocese.
- Bishops: A senior member of the Christian clergy, typically in charge of a diocese and empowered to confer holy orders.
- Abbots: A man who is the head of an abbey of monks.
- Earls: A British nobleman ranking above a viscount and below a marquess
- Barons: A member of the lowest order of the British nobility.
- Justiciaries: The administration of justice.
- Foresters: A person in charge of a forest or skilled in planting, managing, or caring for trees.
- Stewards: A person who looks after the passengers on a ship, aircraft, or train and brings them meals.
- Bailiffs: A person who performs certain actions under legal authority, in particular.
- Liege Subjects: Loyal subject of the monarch.
- Wardship: the state of being under a guardian.
- Disparagement: Speaking in a disrespectful way
- Indemnified: Compensate someone for harm or loss
- Distrained: Seize someone in order to make them pay
- Wapentake: A subdivision of certain northern and midland English counties, corresponding to a hundred in other countries.
- Postponement: Delay
- Intestate: Not having made a will before one dies.
- Chattels: Personal possession
- Lieu: Instead
- Fief: An estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service.
- Kydell: Obsolete
- Tenement: A piece of land held by an owner.
- Socage: A feudal tenure of land involving payment of rent or other nonmilitary service to superior
- Burgage: Tenure of land in town held in return for service or annual rent
- Escheat: The reversion of property to the state, or to a lord, on the owner's dying without legal heirs.
- Disafforsted: Limiting privileges of forests to ordinary land.
- Hitherto: Until now
- Perchance: Perhaps
- Ordain: Make a priest or minister, confer holy orders on
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