Fief Tenant
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The holder of a fief or fee.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
The holder of a fief or fee.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
I. fr.
In old English law. The holder of a fee; a fee-holder or fi-eeholder.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
Fr.
In old English law. The holder of a fief or fee; a feeholder or freeholder. Touts les fieftenants dans le hundred sont obliges de viner, per le servage de lour fiefs; all the free-holders in the hundred are bound to come, by the service of their fees. Mirr. c. 1, § 16.