Belonging to a fee or feud; feudal. More commonly used by the old writers than feudal.

See FEUDALSYSTEM

Fidelity or fealty.Cowell. See FEALTY.

The customs of feuds. The name of a compilation of feudal laws and customs made at Milanin the twelfth century. It is the most ancient work on the subject, and was alwaysregarded,

An officer of the court of wards, appointed by the master of that court,under 32 Hen. VIII. c. 26, whose business if was to be present with the escheator inevery county at

In feudal law. The grantee of a feod, feud, or fee; the vassal or tenantwho held his estate by feudal service. Termes de la Ley. Blackstone uses “feudatory.” 2Bl. Comm. 46.

In old English law. Fee-farm, (q. v.)

The lessee of a fee-farm

This word (meaning a feud or fee) is the one most commonly used by theolder English law-writers, though its equivalent, “feudum,” is used generally by themore modern writers and by the feudal

To enfeoff; to bestow a fee. The bestower was called “fcoffator,” andthe grantee or feoffee, “feoffatus.”

In old English law. A feoffee; one to whom a fee is given, or afeoffment made. Bract, fols. 176, 446.

lie to whom a fee is conveyed. Litt.

The gift of any corporeal hereditament to another, (2 Bl. Comm. 310),operating by transmutation of possession, and requiring, as essential to its completion,that the seisen be passed, (Watk. Conv. 183), which might

This Saxon word meant originally cattle, and thence property or money, and,by a second transition, wages, reward, or fee. It was probably the original form fromwhich the words “feod,” “feudum,” “fief,” “feu,”

In forest law. The fawning season of deer.

A certain portion of the produce of the land due by the grantee to the lordaccording to the terms of the charter. Spel. Feuds, c. 7.

Wild beasts.

Lat. Of a wild nature or disposition. Animals which are by naturewild are so designated, by way of distinction from such as are naturally tame, the latterbeing called “domitir natures.” Fleet v.

Ital. A kind of small vessel or boat. Mentioned in old Scotch law, andcalled “fercost.” Skene.

A fardel-land; ten acres; or perhaps a yard-land. Cowell.FERDFARE. Sax. A summons to serve in the army. An acquittance from going intothe army. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47,