ABSTRACT
Owing to the diverse character of its service it was not possible to apply to serjeanty the same uniform system of taxation that was applied to knight-service. It was not, we have seen, liable to scutage, nor did it contribute to the three aids that were so distinctive of military tenure (servicium militare). But to certain feudal incidents it was no less liable. Relief, for instance, had to be paid on succession to a tenement held by serjeanty, and the burdens of wardship and "marriage" affected it no less than the knight's fee.
