Feodum Antiquum
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
An inherited feud, as distinguished from feodum, novum, a feud acquired by the tenant. FEODUM EST QUOD QUIS TENET EX quacunque causa; sive sit tenementum sive reddit^s. A fee is that which any one holds from whatever cause, whether tenement or rent. Go. Litt. 1.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A feud which devolved upon a vassal from his intestate ancestor.
Defined under Feodum in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A feud which levolyed upon a vassal from his intestate an- —. Feodum est quod quis tenet ex quaeunque causa sive sit tenomentum sive reditus. Co. Litt. 1. <A fee is that which auy one holds from whatever cause, whether tenement or rent.