The old Republic had been a very archaic and ineffective political construction, still largely based on old feudal institutions.

Parts of Europe, including much of Scandinavia, never used serfdom or other feudal institutions.

Paréage, a feudal institution that recognizes equality of rights and status between two rulers.

The four banal (English: common oven) was a feudal institution in medieval France.

In some countries feudal institutions were not fully developed; in many there were still substantial areas of allodial territory.

Besides emphasizing the international reach of the Baroque, this arrangement conveys the extent to which feudal institutions had evolved toward the modern corporate culture.

Strictly speaking, the tied cottage is not, historically or legally, a feudal institution.

They represent one of the last truly feudal institutions in Britain.

The same might have held true of feudal institutions like serfdom, which may have persisted in Macedon well into historical times.

The undermining of feudal institutions, he said, opened up "a vast gulf between the government and the private citizen."