Feudal System
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Feudal system, the system of land tenure which William the Conqueror introduced into this country, thereby displacing the Saxon laws of property, and which was the chief civil institution of the Middle Ages. The system as introduced here, however, differed in some very important respects from that which prevailed abroad. See FEOD and TENURE, and Craig de Feudis, passim. The main incidents of the feudal system were not expressly abolished in England until 12 Car. 2, c. 24. See Hall, Mid. Ages.
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