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  • FENIAN
    A champion, hero, giant. This word, in the plural, is generally used to signify invaders or foreign spoilers. The modern meaning of "fenian" is a member of an organization of persons of Irish birth, resident in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere, having for its aim the overthrow of English More...
  • FEOD
    The same as feud or fief.
  • FEODAL
    Belonging to a fee or feud; feudal. More commonly used by the old writers than feudal.
  • FEODAL SYSTEM
    See FEUDAL SYSTEM.
  • FEODALITY
    Fidelity or fealty. Cowell. See FEALTY.
  • FEODARUM CONSUETUDINES
    The customs of feuds. The name of a compilation of feudal laws and customs made at Milan in the twelfth century. It is the most ancient work on the subject, and was always regarded, on the continent of Europe, as possessing the highest authority.
  • FEODARY
    An officer of the court of wards, appointed by the master of that court, under 32 Hen. VIII. c. 26, whose business it was to be present with the escheator in every county at the finding of offices of lands, and to give evidence for the king, as well concerning More...
  • FEODATORY
    In feudal law. The grantee of a feod, feud, or fee; the vassal or tenant who held his estate by feudal service. Termes de la Ley. Blackstone uses "feudatory." 2 Bl. Comm. 46.
  • FEODI FIRMA
    In old English law. Fee-farm, (q. v.)
  • FEODI FIRMARIUS
    The lessee of a fee-farm.
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