Legal Definition and Related Resources of Fief
Meaning of Fief
A fee, feod or feud.
Fief Alternative Definition
A fee, feod, or feud. A fief was an organically complete brotherhood of associates whose proprietary and personal rights were inextricably blended together. It had much in common with an Indian village community and much in common with a Highland clan. Maine, Sue. L., 365.
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Concept of “Fief”
Traditional meaning of fief in the French law history (with some legal use in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in French) A fee; see FEE; FEUDUM. Fief d’haubert: a fee held by knight- service; see 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 62.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Fief”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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