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petty serjeanty

petty serjeanty is the alternative form of petit serjeanty.

Meaning of petit serjeanty

Noun

petit serjeanty

  1. (historical) A kind of land tenure requiring serjeanty (i.e. personal service other than military service) to a mesne lord rather than the king or a lord paramount.

Questions about petty serjeanty

What is petty serjeanty the alternative form of?
Petty serjeanty is the alternative form of petit serjeanty.

Words near petty serjeanty in the dictionary

  1. petty officers first class
  2. petty officers second class
  3. petty officers third class
  4. petty patent
  5. petty patents
  6. petty serjeanty
  7. petty session
  8. petty sessions
  9. petty spurge
  10. petty theft
  11. petty thefts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: petty serjeanty (page history and authors); petit serjeanty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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