Farm Or Ferm
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Farm or ferm [fr. firma, Lat.; feorme, Sax., food, and feorman, to feed], land taken upon lease under a rent, generally annual, payable by the tenant. It is a collective word, consisting of many things, as a messuage, land, meadow, pasture, wood, common, etc. In Lancashire a farm was called fermholt; in the north, a tack; and in Essex, a wike, Termes de la Ley.
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