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Rent for a farm a farm also an abode a place of residence as he let his land to ferm...
Farm or ferm
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....
Ferm, or fearm
Ferm, or fearm, a house or land or both, let by lease....
Frank-ferm
Frank-ferm, lands or tenements changed in the nature of the fee by feoffment, etc., out of knight service, for certain yearly acknowledgements, Britton, c. lxiv....
Fraunc, or Fraunke Ferme
Fraunc, or Fraunke Ferme. See FRANK-FERM....
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