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Feorme

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

or FEARME (Saxon; Law Lat. firma). Food, provisions. Spelman, voc. "Firma." An entertainment or feast. Id. Herod gegearwode mycle feorme, Herod made a great feast. Sax. Evang. St. Marc. vi.

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Rent paid in provisions. Spelman, ubi supra; Cowell, voc. "Ferme;" 2 Bl. Comm. 318. A manor. Spelman, ubi supra. Hence, the Law Latin firma, and English ferm, farm (q. v.)