Feudal

Relating to or having the quality of a feudum, fief or fee, — the opposite of allodial. Feudal law: the law of feuds or feudal estates; the system of law by which the creation, enjoyment and transmission of feudal estates were regulated, and the rights and duties growing out of the relation of lord and vassal defined and enforced. Feudal system: the system of feuds or fiefs; a system of tenure, the origin of which is traced to the peculiar policy and usages of the northern nations who overturned the Roman empire and settled in its provinces.