VASTUM

L. Latin: A waste or common lying open to the cattle of all tenants who have a right of communing. Cowell. Vastum forestss vel bosei. In old records. Waste of a forest or wood. That part of a forest or wood wherein the trees and underwood were so destroyed that it lay in a manner waste and barren. Paroch. Antiq. 351, 497; Cowell. … [Read more...] about VASTUM

The tenure or holding of a vassal. Cowell. … [Read more...] about VASSELERIA

The state or condition of a vassal. … [Read more...] about VASSALAGE

feudal law. This was the name given to the holder of a fief, bound to perform feudal service; this word was then always correlative to that of lord, entitled to such service. 2. The vassal himself might be lord of some other vassal. 3. In aftertimes, this word was used to signify a species of slave who owed servitude, and was in a state of dependency on a superior lord. … [Read more...] about VASSAL

The operation of castration as performed by section (cutting) of the vas deferens or spermatic cord; sometimes proposed as an inhibitory punishment for rapists and other criminals. … [Read more...] about VASECTOMY