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Feodal

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

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[L. Lat. feodalis.] Relating to, belonging to, or having the quality of a feod, feud, or fee; feudal.

2 Bl. Com. 44, et passim, in book 2, chap. 4. Cowell.

This word is uniformly used by Blackstone in preference to feudal, probably after the example of the old writers, and the constant use of feodum in Bracton, the Register and Magna Charta, instead of feudum. So the Lat. feodalis generally occurs in the Scotch writers.