"Heregeat" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL

In old English law. A heriot paid only in arms, horses, or mili-tary accouterments

Money paid by tenants in lieu of a heriot. It was often applied to the best chattel, as dlstlngulshed from …

Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord …

In English'law. A customary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to the lord of the fee on the decease of …

Subject to the payment of a heriot.

A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the …

In ecclesiastical law. ▲ burial-place. A kind of ecclesiastical heriot, being a customary gift of the second best living animal …

Taking the best beast, etc., where an herlot Is due. on the death of the tenant. 2 BL Comm. 422

The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord …