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,

A term denoting, apparently, a freeman of the lowest class, being named after the cotscti.

In Roman law. Holidays; generally speaking, days or seasons during whichfree-born Romans suspended their political transactions and their lawsuits, and duringwhich slaves enjoyed a cessation from labor, all ferice were thus dies

In old records. The fourth part of a penny; also the quarter of a ward in a borough.

A furlong. Co. Litt 56.

A house or land, or both, let by lease. Cowell.

A farm; a rent; a lease; a house or land, or both, taken by indenture orlease. Plowd. 195; Vicat. See FARM.

Beverages produced by, or which have undergone, a process of alcoholic fermentation, to which they owe their intoxicating properties, including beer, wine, hard cider, and the like, but not spirituous or distilled

A lessee: a farmer. One who holds a term, whether of lands oran incorporeal right, such as customs or revenue.