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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Feoffment :: Feoffment (n.) The grant of a feud or fee.
Rerefief :: Rerefief (n.) A fief held of a superior feudatory; a fief held by an under tenant.
Liege :: Liege (a.) Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject..
Feudist :: Feudist (n.) A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law.
Feudary :: Feudary (a.) Held by, or pertaining to, feudal tenure..
Subinfeudation :: Subinfeudation (n.) The granting of lands by inferior lords to their dependents, to be held by themselves by feudal tenure..
Beneficiary :: Beneficiary (a.) Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession..
Feudtory :: Feudtory (a.) Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title..
Feodality :: Feodality (n.) Feudal tenure; the feudal system. See Feudality.
Foliomort :: Foliomort (a.) See Feuillemort.
Feudalism :: Feudalism (n.) The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.
Fedaliza/tion :: Fedaliza/tion (n.) The act of reducing to feudal tenure.
Fealty :: Fealty (n.) Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation..
Inextinguishable :: Inextinguishable (a.) Not capable of being extinguished; extinguishable; unquenchable; as, inextinguishable flame, light, thirst, desire, feuds..
Vendetta :: Vendetta (n.) A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.
Villain :: Villain (n.) One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant..
Boutefeu :: Boutefeu (n.) An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels.
Roturier :: Roturier (n.) A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land..
Infeodation :: Infeodation (n.) See Infeudation.
Feu De Joie :: Feu de joie () A fire kindled in a public place in token of joy; a bonfire; a firing of guns in token of joy.
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