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Firmarius

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [from Jtrma, a term.] In old English law. A lessee for a term; one having a term, ferm or farm in lands. Stat. Marlhr. c.

24.

Bract. fol.

12 b, 44 b, 166 b, 178, 226 b. 2 £1. Com. 318.

Called anciently fermor, and sometimes ^rmary. Hence farmer, (q. v.) Firmarius nihil habet nm tantum tistcm' fructum; the fermor or lessee has nothing but only the usufruct. Bract, fol.

261.

Id, fol.

318.

Saloo firmario jirma, et termino M4). Id. fol.

166 b, 12 b, 178.

Firmarii comprehended all such as held by lease for life or lives, or for years, by deed or without deed.

2 Inet. 145. See 7 Ad. d: EL N. S. 637.