Note 56 — Section II
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For the uncertainty prevailing as to the burdens of this tenure in the thirteenth century, cf. Bracton, f. 35b. "Since such services are not done for the king's army or the defence of the country, no marriage or wardship is due therefrom to the chief lord, any more than from socage." But the gloss of this dictum quotes an instance of a justice upholding the claim of a chief lord to the wardship and marriage of the heir of a tenant by petty serjeanty.