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Fief

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Fief, a fee; a manor, a possession held by some tenant of a superior.

Yet a phorically the term refers to an area of dominion or governmental bureaucracy, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 640.

Fiefs were originally called terr' jure beneficii concess'; and it was not till under Charles le Gros the term fief began to be in use, Du Cange.

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