Feudal Law

[Lat. Lex Feudalis; Jus Feudorum,] The law of feuds, or feudal estates. That peculiar system of law by which the creation, enjoyment and transmission of feudal estates were regulated, and the rights and duties growing out of the feudal re Lition of lord and vassal, defined and enforced. It originally consisted of unwritten customs and usages, which were first reduced to writing about the middle of the twelfth century, in the compilation known as the Consuetudines or Libri Feudorum, commonly called the Book of Feuds or Fiefs. See Feudorum Libri, It was the law of nearly all Europe during the prevalence of the feudal system, and many of its principles, including the fundamental one of tenure, continue to be recognized at the present «U^. See Craig Jus Feudale, lib.

1. dieg. 4.

Sullivan on Feudal law, lee.

3. 2 Bl. Com, 44, et seq. 3 Kent's Com, 489, et seq.