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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

pl.

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(O. Eng. Law)

Things belonging to the sheriff; especially, farms (called also

vicontiel rents

) for which the sheriff used to pay rent to the king.

Noun.

Things belonging to the sheriff; particularly, farms for which the sheriff pays rent to the king.

vicontiels pl ‎(plural only)

(Britain, law, obsolete) Things belonging to the sheriff, especially farms (also called "vicontiel rents") for which the sheriff used to pay rent to the king.