CORNAGE

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CORNAGE

cornage (kor-nij). [fr. Anglo-French corne ¡°horn¡±] Hist.

1. A type of grand-sergeanty military tenure in which the tenant was bound to blow a horn to alert others whenever an enemy approached.

2. A form of tenure entitling a landowner to rent based on the number of horned cattle owned by the tenant. ? Cornage may have developed into a type of serjeanty or knight-service tenure that obligated the tenant to blow a horn to warn of invaders, esp. along the border with Scotland. See KNIGHT-SERVICE; SERJEANTY. ¡ª Also termed (in senses 1 & 2) horn tenure.

3. A tribute of corn due only on special occasions, as distinguished from a regularly provided service. ? This term has often been spelled coraage or coraagium, stemming perhaps from a spelling error in the 1569 edition of Bracton’s De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae.

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