Lay fee
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A fee held by ordinary feudal tenure, as distinguished from the ecclesiastical tenure of frankalmoign, by which an ecclesiastical corporation held of the donor. The tenure of frankalmoign is reserved by St. 12 Car. II., which abolished military tenures.
2 Bl. Comm. 101. —-Lay impropriator.
In English ecclesiastical law. A lay person holding a spiritual appropriation.
3 Steph. Comm. 72.