SERVICE

A species ot feu• dal tenure, which differed very slightly from a pure and perfect feud, being entirely of a milltary nature; and it was the first, most universal, and most honorable of the feudal tenures. To make a tenure by knight-service, a determinate quantity o:( land was neces• sary, which was called a "knight's fee," (Jeo-. dum milita-re,) the measure of which was · estimated at 680 acres; Co. Litt. 69a; Brown. [s. 695]