Feudorum libri or consnetudlnes

The Books (or customs) of Fiefs or Feuds; a compilation of feudal law, made about the middle of the twelfth century at Milan, in Lombardy. It is the most ancient work on the subject, and of high authority. turn: an open fee; a flef resulting back to the lord, -nhere the blood of the person last seised was utterly extinct and gone. Feudniu francuin: a free or frank fee. Feudnm impropriuin: an improper or derivative fee. Feudnm Indi Tidanm: an indivisible or impartible fee, descendible to the eldest son alone. Feudnm laicnm: a lay fee. Fendnm ligium: a liege fee; a fief held immediately of the sovereign, one for which the vassal owed fealty to his lord against all persons. Fendnm maternum: a maternal fee; a flef descended to the feudatory from his mother. Feodum militare: a military fee. Fendnm militis: a knight's fea Feudnm norum: a new fee; a fief which began in the person of the feudatory, and did not come to him by succession. Fendnm no Tum: a fee acquired by the man himself; — nt antiquum: a new fee held as an ancient one, or with all the qualities annexed to a fief descended from ancestors. Fendnm paternum: a paternal fee; a fief descendible only to the heirs by the father's side. Fendnm proprium: a proper genuine and original fee; a fief being of a purely military character and held by nlilitary service. Feudnm simplex: fee-simple. Feudnm sine investitnra nu Uo modo constitni potest: a fee can by no method be created without livery of seisin. Fendnm talliatnm: a mutilated or truncated fee, or inheritance, from which the heirs general were cut ofif,