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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.