Legal Term Dictionary

This word (meaning a feud or fee) is the one most commonly used by the older English law-writers, though its equivalent, "feudum," is used generally by the more modern writers and by the feudal law-writers. Litt. ? 1; Spelman. There were various classes of feoda, among which may be enumerated More...

This word (meaning a feud or fee) is the one most commonly used by the older English law-writers, though its equivalent, "feudum," is used generally by the more modern writers and by the feudal law-writers. Litt. ? 1; Spelman. There were various classes of feoda, among which may be enumerated the following: Feodum lai-cum, a lay fee. Feodum military a knight's fee. Feodum improprium, an Improper or derivative fee. Feodum proprium, a proper and original fee, regulated by the strict rules of feudal succession and tenure. Feodum simplex, a simple or pure fee; fee-simple. Feodum talliatum, a fee-tail. See 2 Bl. Comm. 58, 62; Litt ss 1, 13; Bract fol. 175; Glan. 13, 23. In old English law. A seigniory or jurisdiction. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 63, ? 4. A fee; a perquisite or compensation for a service. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 7. -Feodum antiquum. A feud which devolved upon a vassal from his intestate ancestor. -Feodum nobile. A fief for which the tenant did guard and owed homage. Spelman.-Feodum novum. A feud acquired by a vassal himself. Feodum est qnod qnls tenet en qua-ounqne eansa sive sit tenementum sive reddltns. Co. Litt 1. A fee is that which any one holds from whatever cause, whether tenement or rent Feodum simplex quia feodum Idem est quod hsereditas, et simplex idem est qnod legitimum vol purum; et sio feodum simplex idem est quod Hasreditas legitima vel hsereditas pura. Litt s 1. A fee-simple, so called because fee is the same as inheritance, and simple is the same as lawful or pare; and thus fee-simple is the same as a lawful inheritance, or pure inheritance. Feodum talliatum, i. e., hjereditas la quondam eertitudinem Umitata. Litt | 13. Fee-tail, i. e., an Inheritance limited in a definite descent Less...

A feoffment 2 BL Comm. 810.

A feoffment 2 BL Comm. 810. Less...

To enfeoff; to bestow a fee. The bestower was called "fcoffator," and the grantee or feoffee, "feoffat us."

To enfeoff; to bestow a fee. The bestower was called "fcoffator," and the grantee or feoffee, "feoffat us." Less...

In old English law. A feoffer; one who gives or bestows a fee; one who makes a feoffment Bract fols. 12b, 8L

In old English law. A feoffer; one who gives or bestows a fee; one who makes a feoffment Bract fols. 12b, 8L Less...

In old English law. A feoffee; one to whom a fee is given, or a feoffment made. Bract fols. 175, 44b.

In old English law. A feoffee; one to whom a fee is given, or a feoffment made. Bract fols. 175, 44b. Less...

He to whom a fee is conveyed. Litt 5 1; 2 Bl. Comm. 20. -Feoffee to uses. A person to whom land was conveyed for the use of a third party. The latter was called "cestui que use."

He to whom a fee is conveyed. Litt 5 1; 2 Bl. Comm. 20. -Feoffee to uses. A person to whom land was conveyed for the use of a third party. The latter was called "cestui que use." Less...

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 be accomplished either by investiture or by livery of seisin. 1 Washb. Beal Prop. 33* See More...

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 be accomplished either by investiture or by livery of seisin. 1 Washb. Beal Prop. 33* See Thatcher v. Omans, 3 Pick. (Mass.) 532; French v. French, 3 N. H. 260; Perry v. Price, 1 Mo, 554; Orndoff v. Turnian, 2 Leigh (Va.) 233, 21 Am. Dec. 608. Also the deel or conveyance by which such corporeal hereditament is passed. A feoffment originally meant the grant of a , feud or fee; that is, a barony or knight's fee, for which certain services were due from the feoffee to tbe feoffor. This was the proper sense of the word; but by custom it came afterwards to signify also a grant (with livery of seisin) of a free Inheritance to a man and his heirs, referring rather to the perpetuity of the estate than to tbe feudal tenure. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 90, 91. It was for ages the only method (in ordinary use) for conveying the freehold of land in possession, but has now fallen in great measure into disuse, even in England, having been almost entirely supplanted by some of that class of conveyances founded on the statute law of the realm. 1 Steph. Comm. 467, 468. -Feoffmeat to uses. A feoffment of lands to one person to the use of another. Less...

The person making a feoffment, or enfeoffing another in fee. 2 BL Comm. 310; Litt. ?| 1, 57.

The person making a feoffment, or enfeoffing another in fee. 2 BL Comm. 310; Litt. ?| 1, 57. Less...

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 from which, the words "feod," "feuduin," "fief," "feu," and "fee" (art meaning a feudal grant of land) have been derived.

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 from which, the words "feod," "feuduin," "fief," "feu," and "fee" (art meaning a feudal grant of land) have been derived. Less...

In forest law. The fawning season of deer.

In forest law. The fawning season of deer. Less...