Definition of feu

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Feu (n.) A free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money..

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Fuar :: Fuar (n.) Same as Feuar.
Adscript :: Adscript (n.) One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.
Baron :: Baron (n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount..
Feudary :: Feudary (a.) Held by, or pertaining to, feudal tenure..
Arriere-ban :: Arriere-ban (n.) A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France..
Zamindar :: Zamindar (n.) A landowner; also, a collector of land revenue; now, usually, a kind of feudatory recognized as an actual proprietor so long as he pays to the government a certain fixed revenue..
Attornment :: Attornment (n.) The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord..
Infeodation :: Infeodation (n.) See Infeudation.
Feudally :: Feudally (adv.) In a feudal manner.
Defeudalize :: Defeudalize (v. t.) To deprive of the feudal character or form.
Feudal :: Feudal (a.) Consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the feudal system..
Quatrefeuille :: Quatrefeuille (n.) Alt. of Quatrefoi.
Vendetta :: Vendetta (n.) A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.
Coshering :: Coshering (n.) A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house.
Homage :: Homage (n.) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign..
Subingression :: Subinfeudation (n.) Subordinate tenancy; undertenancy.
Extinct :: Extinct (a.) Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law..
Feuter :: feuter (v. t.) To set close; to fix in rest, as a spear..
Beneficiary :: Beneficiary (n.) A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds..
Filemot :: Filemot (n.) See Feullemort.
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