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* '''''ambacht''''' or '''''ambachtsheerlijkheid''''' — a [[serjeanty]], often located inland rather than on the borders. Serjeanties sometimes consisted of nothing more than a castle and a few hectares of land, although most were larger than this.<ref name="Janse"/> The serjeant did not have the power of ‘pit and gallows’, i.e., the power to impose the death penalty.
 
* '''''schoutsambt''''' — a reeveland, the territory under the charge of a reeve (''[[schout]]''), thus equivalent to the jurisdiction of a ''heerlijkheid''
 
==Lord of the manor (''heer'')==