feuing conditions query

[skauwt]

id like to point out that the query in bold wasn't worded by myself in anyway merely copy and pasted so im certainly not thinking braveheart

i think the person who initially came up with the query was wondering if rather than taking a lady like so many thought is it possible they took there so called rights in other forms e.g fines and taking over of lands

[gilmore]

The right of first night, while not entirely fiction, is close to it, though it does make a good story. While there was not a legal right to it, or to the determination of marriage partners, a feudal lord or laird could and sometimes did enforce his wishes through extra-legal means. Today we would call it sexual harassment.

[Cygnus]

Today we would call it sexual harassment.

That's putting it very mildly.

But that's getting into the dragon-infested part of the map.

I'm interested to hear about the fees and "land-taking" listed by the OP, since I have no historical information to back my assumption that a member of the "lordly" class could virtually do anything he (or occasionally she) could so long as it didn't step on the toes of the next person up in the pecking order.