Firma

In old English law. The contract of lease or letting; also the rent (or farm) reserved upon a lease of lands, which was frequently payable in provisions, but semetimes in money, in which latter case it was called "alta firma," white rent A messuage, with the house and garden belonging thereto. Also provision for the table; a banquet; a tribute towards the entertainment of the king for one night.

— Firma feodi. In old English law. A farm or lease of a fee ; a fee-farm.

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In old English and Scots law. A firm, f erm, or farm; a lease or letting; a rent reserved on letting lands; a rent payable in money; a messuage with wood land, etc., connected therewith; a feast or entertainment. Firma alba: white rent Firma dial: a day's provisions or entertainment. Firma teodi: a farm or lease of a fee; a fee farm. Firma noctis: a night's ferm; provisions or entertainment for a night, or the value thereof.

In old English law. The con. tract of lease or letting; also the rent (or farm) reserved upon a lease of lands, which was frequently payable in provisions, but sometimes in money, in whieh latter case it was called “alba firma,” white rent. A messuage, with the house and garden belonging thereta, Also provision for the table: a banquet; a tribute towards the entertainment of the king for one night.

/. A farm, rent; t. Farm. Firmarius alba: white rent.

Lat. [from Sax. feorme, fearmcy provisions.] In old English law. A firm, ferm, or farm; a rent reserved on letting lands; {reditus qui in elocandis preediis domino elocanti reservatur.) Anciently reserved in provisions. Spelman, Blount. Precep. Will, Conq, cited ibid, Blount, voc. Hordeum palmate. See Farm, Femu A feast or entertainment. Spelman. Huntingdon, Hist, lib. 6 in An, 23 Edw. Conf, cited ibid, Ranulf, Cestriens, cited ibid, Firma. noctis; a night's ferm; provisions or entertainment for a night, or the value of it: sometimes expressed by inversion, as ru)x de Jirma, a night of entertainment. Firma diei; a day's provisions or entertainment. These are common expressions in Domesday. Spelman, A rent payable in money, (redilus pecuniarius.) Spelman, Hoveden. in Johan. -R. A. D. 1 1 99, cited ibid. Pro certa firma inde annuatim reddenda; for a certain rent thereof annually to be piud. Heg. Orig. 257b. Deexi tibus et prqficuiit, vel de fi rma dominii nostri; of the issues and profits, or of the rent of our lordship. Id. 265 b. Cowell, voc. Firmaratio. Called albajirma, blanch firm, or white farm, (qq. v.) A lease or letting, {elocatio;) a term for years, {terminus.) Adhuc viginti anni de firma illorum restent; twenty years of their lease will yet remain. Spelman, Ingulph. Sax. Hist, Croyl. cited ibid. Ad terminum, veladfirmam; for a term or ferm. Bract, fol. 30. Saloo firmario firma et tem Uno suo; saving to the fermor, (termer or lessee) his farm and term. Id. fol. 166 b. Non magis poterit firmarium ejicere de firma sua, quam tenentem e Uiquem de libero tenemento suo; he can no more eject the fermor (or lessee) from his farm j(or term), than any tenant from his freehold. Id. fol. 220 b. Ad &cma.m ponere vel dare; to put or giro for a ferm or farm. Spelman. Chart. Hen. I. de Libert Angl. cited ibid. Ad firmam dimittere, tradere, locare; to demise, deliver, let for a farm. Bract, fol. 12 b, 44 b. See To Farm Ut. A farm in the modem sense; a messnage and land, wood, <&c., belonging to or used with it. Co. Litt. 5 a. Shep. Touch. 93. See Farm.