<Li> Relief, which he paid on succeeding to his lands; </Li> <Li> Wardship, that is, the profits from his lands during a minority (IE, if the landholder is too young to manage the land); </Li> <Li> Marriage, that is, the right of giving in marriage (unless bought off), his heiress, his heir (if a minor) and his widow </Li> <P> The principle of commuting for money the obligation of military service struck at the root of the whole system, and so complete was the change of conception that tenure by knightservice of a mesne lord becomes, first in fact and then in law, tenure by escuage (i.e. scutage). By the time of Henry III, as Bracton states, the test of tenure was scutage; liability, however small, to scutage payment made the tenure military . </P>

Granted land to knights in exchange for military service