#feudal law

• Excommunication — The act of excommunicating or anathematizing; a solemn ecclesiastical decree by which a person is excluded from the community of believers. In old Romanian feudal law, this measure represented a severe spiritual punishment as well as a form of civil death, stripping the condemned of legal protections.
• Allodium — A free feudal land property, exempt from duties, services, or taxes to a lord, which could be freely inherited or alienated by the owner. This type of structural possession was completely independent of the classical fief system, offering the owner full legal and economic autonomy over the land held.
• Apanage — The standard literary form of the term; in a historical and legal sense, it represents a landed estate or a consistent financial pension allocated by the sovereign to members of the royal family (usually younger sons) as an independent means of subsistence, to compensate for their exclusion from the succession to the throne. Figuratively, it defines an exclusive privilege, a moral monopoly, or a specific prerogative of a category of people.
• Belonging — An archaic form or early nominalized verbal variant of the act of belonging; the historical process or state of possession, dependency, or structural bond of an asset, territory, or individual toward a feudal authority or rightful owner, preceding the establishment of the modern neologism 'apartenență'.