Feudum

A feud, fief, or fee. A right of using and enjoying forever the lands of another, which the lord grants on condition that the tenant shall render fealty, military duty, and other services. Spelman, Gloss. It is not properly the land, but a right In the land. This form of the word is used by the meaning is the' same. There was an older word feum. Its use by the Normans is exceedingly obscure. “Feudal” was not in their vocabulary. Usually it denoted a stretch of land, rarely a tenure or mass of rights. "It came to be applied to every person who had heritable rights in land.

Maitl. Domesday Book and Beyond 152.

Feudum antiquum

A fee descended from the tenant’s ancestors.

2 Bla. Com. 212.

One which has been possessed by the relations of the tenant for four generations. Spelman, Gloss.

Feudum apertum

A fee which the lord might enter upon and resume either through failure of issue of the tenant or any crime or legal cause on his part.

Spelman, Gloss. 2 Bla. Com. 245.

Feudum francum

A free feud. One which was noble and free from talliage and other subsidies to which the plebeia feuda (vulgar feiids) were subject. Spelman, Gloss.

Feudum haubertieum

A fee held on the military service of appearing fully armed at the ban and arridre ban.' Spelman, Gloss.

Feudum improprium

A derivative fee.

Feudum individuum

A tee which could descend to the eldest son alone.

2 Bla. Com. 216.

Feudum laicum

A lay fee.

Feudum ligium

A liege fee. One where the tenant owed fealty to his lord against all other persons.

Spelman, Gloss.; 1 Bla. Com. 367.

Feudum matemum

A tee descending from the mother’s side.

2 Bla. Com. 212.

Feudum militare

A knight’s fee, held by knight service and esteemed the most honorable species of tenure.

2 Bla. Com. 62.

Feuduni nobile

A fee for which the tenant did guard and owed fealty and homage. Spelman, Gloss.

Feudum novum

One which began with the person of the feudatory, and did not come to him by descent.

Feudum novum ut antiquum

A new fee held with the qualities and incidents of an ancient one.

2 Bla. Com. 212; Wms. B. P. 126.

Feudum patemum

A fee which the paternal ancestors had held for four generations. Calvlnus, Lex.; Spelman, Gloss. One descendible to heirs on the paternal side only.

2 Bla. Com. 223.

One which might be held by males only.

Du Cange

Feudum proprium. A genuine original feud or fee, of a military nature, in the hands of a military person.

2 Sharsw. Bla. Com. 67.

Feudum talliatum

A restricted fee. One limited to descend to certain classes of heirs. 2 Bla. Com. 112, n.; 1 Washb. R. P. 66; Spelman, Gloss. collaterals and the exclusion of ascendants. The theory of Blackstone, which Is characterized by both Christian and Pollock & Maitland as “Ingenious,” will be found fully stated In 2 Com. 211, while for a criticism of it and other theories on the subject, see 2 Poll. & Maitl. 286.