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Improper Feuds

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Derivative feuds, such, for instance, as those that were originally bartered and sold to the feudatory for a price, or were held upon base or less honorable services, or upon a rent in lieu of ^nilitary service, or were themselves alienable, without mutual license, or descended indifferently to males or females, or otherwise varied from the rules ordinarily pertaining to feudal tenure. Wharton.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

These were derivative feuds; as, for instance, those that were originally bartered and sold to the feudatory for a price, or were held upon base or less honorable services, or upon a rent in lieu of mili-trary service, or were themselves alienable, without mutual license, or descended indifferently to males or females. Wharton.

Defined under Improper in Black's Law Dictionary.