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Fief d'haubert

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Arriere Fee, or Fief

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Rerefief

A fief held of a superior feudatory a fief held by an under tenant

enfeoff

enfeoff [Anglo-French enfeoffer, from Old French en-, causative prefix + fief fief] : to invest (a person) with a freehold estate by feoffment

fee

fee [Middle English, fief, from Old French fé fief, ultimately from a Germanic word akin to Old High German fehu cattle] 1

feoff

feoff [Anglo-French feoffer, from fie fief fief] : enfeoff

Chattels or catals

the term was extended to all movables and not only to these but to whatsoever was not a fief or feud or, at a later date, in the nature of freehold or parcel of it. The distinction

and not to depart from the same; called also homme levant et couchant, and in Normandy, resseant du fief, Leg. H. I. A person who has a residence in a particular place, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.,

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