Firma

Lat. [from Sax. feorme, fearmcy provisions.] In old English law. A firm, ferm, or farm; a rent reserved on letting lands; {reditus qui in elocandis preediis domino elocanti reservatur.) Anciently reserved in provisions. Spelman, Blount.

Precep.

Will, Conq, cited ibid, Blount, voc. Hordeum palmate. See Farm, Femu A feast or entertainment.

Spelman.

Huntingdon, Hist, lib. 6 in An, 23 Edw. Conf, cited ibid, Ranulf, Cestriens, cited ibid, Firma. noctis; a night's ferm; provisions or entertainment for a night, or the value of it: sometimes expressed by inversion, as ru)x de Jirma, a night of entertainment. Firma diei; a day's provisions or entertainment. These are common expressions in Domesday. Spelman, A rent payable in money, (redilus pecuniarius.) Spelman, Hoveden. in Johan. -R. A. D. 1 1 99, cited ibid. Pro certa firma inde annuatim reddenda; for a certain rent thereof annually to be piud.

Heg. Orig. 257b.

Deexi tibus et prqficuiit, vel de fi rma dominii nostri; of the issues and profits, or of the rent of our lordship.

Id. 265 b.

Cowell, voc.

Firmaratio.

Called albajirma, blanch firm, or white farm, (qq. v.) A lease or letting, {elocatio;) a term for years, {terminus.) Adhuc viginti anni de firma illorum restent; twenty years of their lease will yet remain. Spelman, Ingulph. Sax. Hist, Croyl. cited ibid. Ad terminum, veladfirmam; for a term or ferm. Bract, fol.

30.

Saloo firmario firma et tem Uno suo; saving to the fermor, (termer or lessee) his farm and term. Id. fol.

166 b.

Non magis poterit firmarium ejicere de firma sua, quam tenentem e Uiquem de libero tenemento suo; he can no more eject the fermor (or lessee) from his farm j(or term), than any tenant from his freehold. Id. fol.

220 b.

Ad &cma.m ponere vel dare; to put or giro for a ferm or farm.

Spelman.

Chart. Hen. I. de Libert Angl. cited ibid. Ad firmam dimittere, tradere, locare; to demise, deliver, let for a farm. Bract, fol.

12 b, 44 b.

See To Farm Ut. A farm in the modem sense; a messnage and land, wood, <&c., belonging to or used with it.

Co. Litt. 5 a. Shep. Touch. 93.

See Farm.

See Farm.