Used As A Unit For Tax Assessment
A feudal magnate was assessed for certain Feudal aids according as to how many knight's-fees he was overlord to. Where a knight's-fee was inherited by joint heiresses, the fee would be split into 2 separate manors, each deemed 1/2 a knight's-fee, and so-on down to smaller fractions. Thus a magnate could be overlord to, say, 12½ knight's fees.
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