Feudal duties

alleged legal right in medieval Europe allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with subordinate women

thumb|14th-century serfs in England, working under the supervision of the lord's reeve at harvest time

An appanage, or apanage (; ), is the grant of an estate, title, office or other thing of value to a younger child of a monarch, who would otherwise have no inheritance under the system of primogeniture (where only the eldest inherits). It was common in much of Europe.

lands subject to feudal dues in Medieval France

The taille () was a direct land tax on the French peasantry and non-nobles (Third Estate) in Ancien Régime France. The tax was imposed on each household and was based on how much land it held, and was paid directly to the state.

Scutage was a medieval English tax levied on holders of a knight's fee under the feudal land tenure of knight-service. Under feudalism the king, through his vassals, provided land to knights for their support. The knights owed the king military service in return. The knights were allowed to "buy out" of the military service by paying scutage (a term derived from Latin scutum, "shield").

alt=A monochrome, profile illustration of four oxen dragging a plough through a field. The ploughman walks behind, controlling the plough, while his colleague stands to his side, holding a long whip in the air.|Some carucages were assessed on plough-teams, such as this four-ox-team plough, redrawn from the Luttrell Psalter, an [[illuminated manuscript of .|thumb|400px]]

obligations in a feudal system

1486 decree by King Ferdinand setting aside medieval constraints on serfs.