Feod - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: feodFeod, or feud
Feod, or feud, the right which the vassal had in land, or some immovable property of his lord, to use the same and take the profits thereof, rendering unto the lord such duties and services as belonged to the particular tenure; the actual property in the soil always remaining in the lord, Spelm., Feuds and Tenures....
Feod
A feud See 2d Feud...
Feodal
Feodal, of or belonging to the feod or feud....
Feudal system
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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