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Fee Farm

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Land held of another in fee; that is, in perpetuity by the tenant and his heirs at a yearly rent, without fealty, homage, or other services than such as are specially comprised in the feoffment.

Cowell.

Fealty, however, was incident to a holding in fee farm, according to some authors. Spelman; Termes de la Ley. Land held at a perpetual rent.

2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 43.