Proper Feuds - Law Dictionary Search Results
Proper feuds
Matched in: Term Proper feuds
Tenure
in possession, because they were supposed to make avail or profit of the land. The lands were called feuds (feoda), either proper, which were purely military, given militi' gratia to persons qualified for military service; or improper, … right, term, or mode of holding lands or tenements in subordination to a superior; in fendal times, real property was held predominantly as part of a tenure system, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1481. Tenure, the
Civil Law
Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law. The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to that which … and laity became so jealous of its prosperity, and alarmed t its progress, that a long and fierce feud ensued between the laity, stoutly struggling for the Common Law, and the clergy for the Civil and Canon
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