Proper Feuds - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Proper feuds, the original and genuine feuds held by pure military service....
Feod, 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....
Feud-bote
Feud-bote, a recompense for engaging in a feud or quarrel, Cowel's Law Dict....
Feuds, book of
Feuds, book of, published during the reign of Henry III., about the year 1152. 'While most of the nations of Europe referred to the Book of Feuds as the grand code of law by which to correct and amend the imperfections in their own tenures, there is not in our law-books any allusion that intimates the existence of such a body of constitutions.'-2 Reeves, 55....
Improper feuds
Improper feuds, derivative feuds; as, for instance, those that were originally bartered and sold to the feudatory for a price, or were held upon base or less honourable services, or upon a rent in lieu of military service, or were themselves alienable, without mutual licence, or descended indifferently to males or females...
Military feuds
Military feuds, the genuine or original feuds which were in the hands of military men, who performed military duty for their tenures. See TENURE....
Feud
Feud, An inheritable estate is land conveyed from a feudal superior to a grantee or tenant, held on conditions of rendering services to superior, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 636....
Honorary feuds
Honorary feuds, titles of nobility, descendible to the eldest son, in exclusion of all the rest....
Proper
Properly hence to a great degree very as proper good...
Dangerous, and not kept under proper control
Dangerous, and not kept under proper control, as amended and applied, permitted a finding that a dog was dangerous and not under proper control when only a fight between dogs took place and no person or the animal was endangered or injured, Briscoe v. Shattock (D.C.), (1999) 1 WLR 432....
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