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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In French feudal law. A species of relief; a seignorial right due on every change of a tenant. A feudal right which formerly prevalled in Languedoc and Guy-enne, being attached to that species of heritable estates which were granted on the contract of emphyteusis. Guyot, Inst. Feod. c.

5, § 12.