A lessee; a farmer. one who holds a term, whether of lauds or an lucorporeal right, such as customs or revenue
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In French law. one who farms any public revenue
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A farm; a rent; a lease; a house or land, or both, taken by indenture or lease. Plowd. 195; Vicat, See Fabm
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Beverages produced by, or whlch have undergone, a process of alcohollc fermentation, to which they owe their intoxicating properties, including beer, wine, hard cider, and the like, but uot spirituous or distilled, liquors. State v. Lemp, IQ Mo. 391; State v. Biddle, 54 N. H. 383; People v. Foster, 64 Mich. 715, 31 N. W. 596; State v. Gill, 89 Minn. 502, 95 N, W. 449; State v. Adams, 51 N. H. 568
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or FEARM. A house or land, or both, let by lease. Cowell
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In old records. The fourth part of a penny; also the quarter of a ward in a borongh
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Holiday*; also weekdays, as distinguished from Sunday. Cowell
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In Saxon law. An acquittance of manslaughter committed in tbe army; also a fine imposed on persons for net going forth on a military expedition. Cow-ell
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In old English law. A weekday ; a holiday; a day on which process could not be served; a fair; a ferry. Cowell; Du Cange; Spelman
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Sax. A summons to serve-in the army. An acquittance from going into-the army. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47, ( 23
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A term denoting, appar-ently, a freeman of the lowest class, being named after the cotseti
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Ital. A kind of small ves-sel or boat. Mentioned in old Scotch law, and called “fercost” Skene
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A fardel-land; ten acres; or perhaps a yard-land. Cowell
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A certain portion of the prod-uce of the land dne by the grantee to the lord according to the terms of the charter. Spel. Feuds, c. 7
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The person making a feoff-ment, or enfeoffing another in fee. 2 BL Comm. 310; Litt. H 1, 57
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This Saxon word meant originally cattle, and thence property or money, and, by a second transition, wages, reward, or , fee. It was probably the original form from which the words “feod,” “feudum,” “fief,” “feu,” and “fee” (all meaning a feudal grant of land) have been derived
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He to whom a fee is conveyed. Litt § 1; 2 Bl. Comm. 20
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The gift of any corpo-real hereditament to another, (2 Bl. Comm. 310), operating by transmutation of possession, and requiring, as essential to its com-pletlon, that the selsen be passed, (watk. Conv. 183), whlch might he accomplished elther by investiture or by livery of seisin
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In old English law. A feoffer; one who gives or bestows a fee; one who makes a feoffment Bract fols. 12b, 81
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In old Engllsh law. A feoffee; one to whom a fee is given, or a feoffment made. Bract fols. 17b, 44b
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