Kinat]) The granting of planetary tenure without such nominal "immunity" gave the holder a "quasi-fief ' in which governmental power was shared with a Caid of the Imperial Sardaukar-an arrangement held to be eminently unsatisfactory by most Houses Major In return, the recipient of a planetary fief agreed to accept the title of "vassal, ' swore perpetual homage and fealty to the Padishah Emperor and his descendants, and pledged yearly tithes of ah* profits accruing to the fief, including supporting levies for the Impen al forces amounting to no fewer than one-tenth of all military conscripts for planetary armies In addition various feudal aids and incidents" had gotten attached to the system over the years and were regarded as inviolable through long custom These included 'relief," basically an inheritance tax paya ble upon the death of a vassal and the assumption of a fief by that vassal's legal heir, the incident of marriage, to be paid by an heiress for the right to choose her own husband (in practice merely a wedding tax but taken very seriously by the Impenum as evidenced in the legal precedent of Lady Angelica Hagal vs the Impenum {Landsraad Archives 9183], when the High Council of the Landsraad ruled that 'mamage among the members of Houses Major cannot be construed otherwise than as a political and economic merger, and as such is under the direct jurisdiction of our Sublime Padishah Emperor himself ), and-most expensive of all-the right of hospitality" or droit de gite dreaded by all Houses Major, since to entertain the emperor in the style to which he was accustomed could break all but the wealthiest o