Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

homage ancestral

[Law French] A type of homage in which a tenant and the tenant's ancestors have held immemorially of another by the service of homage. ( This long-standing relationship bound the lord to warrant the title and to hold the tenant clear of all services to superior lords. - Also spelled homage auncestral (aw-mahzh on-se-stral).homage liege (hom-ij leej). Homage due the sovereign alone as supreme lord, done without any saving or exception of the rights of other lords. - Also termed homagium ligium (ha-may jee-am 1> jee-am).