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Feoh

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A fee; a reward.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

This Saxon word meant originally cattle, and thence property or money, and, by a second transition, wages, reward or 4ee. It was probably the original form from which the words "food," "fuudum," "fief," "feu," and "fee" (all meaning a feudal grant of land) have been derived.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

sax. A stipend; wages; reward; a fee.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

This Saxon word meant originally cattle, and thenee property or money, and, by a second transition, wages, reward, or fee. It was probably the original form from which the words “feod,” “feudum,” “fief,” “feu,” and “fee” (all meaning a feudal grant of land) have been derived.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Sax. A stipend; wages; reward; fee. This seems to have been the primitive word used in the vernacular of the Teutonic nations, to denote a feudal grant of lands; and from which were formed the French fief, L. Lat. feodum and feudum, Scotch feu, and English or Anglo-Norman fee. See Fee, Feod, Feodum.