In feudal law. A service (or the ceremony of rendering it) which a tenant was bound to perform to his lord on receiving investiture of a fee, or succeeding to it as heir, in acknowledgment of the ten-ure. It is described by Littleton as thc most honorable service of reverence that a free tenant might do to his lord. The ceremony was as follows: The tenant, heing ungirt and wlth hare head, knelt before the lord