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The feudal system was a system where the king owned all the land, but exchanged the use of it to members of the nobility in exchange for (usually) military services. These nobles would still have more land than they could manage, so they in turn allowed the use of it to lesser nobles in exchange for (usually) military services. The lesser nobles then farmed their property out to knights and other small landholders who in turn leased it to freemen or serf farmers, who worked the land and were able to live off it in exchange for some of the produce.

The result was a pyramidal society bound together by grants of land and corresponding assumptions of obligations.

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