Lay Fee
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A fee held by ordinary feudal tenure, as distinguished from the ecclesiastical tenure of frankalmoign, by which an ecclesiastical corporation held of donor. The tenure of frankalmoign is reserved by St. 12 Car. II., which abolished military tenures. 1 Bl. Comm. 101.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A fee held by ordinary feudal tenure, as distinguished from the ecclesiastical tenure of frankalmoign, by which an ecclesiastical corporation held of the donor. The tenure of frankalmoign is reserved by St. 12 Car. II., which abolished military tenures. 2 Bl. Comm. 101.
—-Lay impropriator.
In English ecclesiastical law. A lay person holding a spiritual appropriation. 3 Steph. Comm. 72.
Defined under Lay in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A feeheld by ordinary fendal tenure, as distinguished from the ecclesiastical tenure of frankalmoign, by whichan ecclesiastical corporation held of the donor, The tenure of frankaimoign is reserved by St. 12 Car. IL., which abolished military tenures. 2 Bl. Comm. 101.