Fief-Tenant
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Fr.
In old English law
The holder of a fief or fee; a feeholder or freeholder. Touts les fieftenants dans le hundred sont obliges de viner, per le servage de lour fiefs; all the free-holders in the hundred are bound to come, by the service of their fees. Mirr. c.
1, § 16.