To enfeoff; to bestow a fee. The bestower was called “fcoffator,” and the grantee or feoffee, “feoffat us
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This word (meaning a feud or fee) is the one most commonly used by the older English law-writers, though its equlva-lent, “feud urn,” is used generally by the more modern writers nnd by the feudal law-writers. Litt. 8 1; Spelman. There were various classes of feoda, among which may be enumerated the following; Feodum latent m, a lay fee. Feodum militare, a knight’s fee. Feodum improprium, an improper or derivative fee. Feodum proprium, a proper and original fee, regulated by the strict rules of feudal succession and tenure. Feodum simplex, a simple or pure fee; fee-simple. Feodum talliatum, a fee-tail. See 2 Bl. Comm. 58, 62; Litt SS 1. 13; Bract fol. 175; Gian. 13, 23
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In feudal law. The grantee of a feod, feud, or fee; the vassal or tenant who held his estate by feudal service. Termes de la Ley. Blackstone uses “feudatory.” 2 Bl. Comm. 46
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An oflicer of the court of wards, appointed by the master of that court, under 32 Hen. VIII. c. 20, whose business if was to be present with the escheator in every county at the finding of offices of lands, and to give evidence for the king, as well concerning the value as the tenure; and hia office was also to survey the land of the ward, after the office found, and to rate it. He also assigned the king’s widows their dower; and received all the rents, etc. Abol-lshed by 12 Car. II. c. 24. wharton
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Belonging to a fpe or feud; feudal. More commonly used by the old writers than feudal
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In Saxon law. A tax or imposition, exacted for the repelling of en-emies
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A champion, hero, giant This word, in the plural, is generally used to signify invaders or foreign spoilers. The modern meaning of “fenian” is a member of an organization of persons of Irish birth, resident in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere, having for its aim the overthrow of English rule in Ireland, webster, (Supp
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In forest law. The fawn-lng of deer; the fawning season. Spelman
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Usury; the gain of in-terest; the practice of increasing money by lending
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L. Fr. A woman. In the phrase “baron et feme” (q. v.) the word has the sense of “wife.”
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In English law. Thjs term meant originally the state of having forfeited lands and goods to the crown upon convic-tion for certain offenses, and then, by transi-tion, any offense upon conviction for which such forfeiture followed, in addition to any other punishment prescribed hy law; as dis
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The sex which conceives and gives birth to young. Also a member of snch sex. The term is generic, but may have the specific meaning of “woman,” if so in-dlcated by the context. State v. Hemm, 82 Iowa, 609, 48 N. W. 971
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Malignant; maliciouB; done with lntent to commit a crime; having the grade or quality of a felony. People v. Moore, 37 Hun (N. Y.) 93; Aikman v. Com., 18 S. W. 938, 13 Ky. Law Rep. 894; State v. Bush, 47 Kan. 201, 27 Pac. 834, 13 L. R. A. 607; Com. v. Barlow, 4 Mass. 440
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with a felonious In-tent; with the Intention of committing a crime. An indispensable word in modern indictments for felony, ns fclonicc was in the Latin forms. 4 Bl. Coinm. 307; State v. Jesse. 19 N. C. 300; State v. Smith, 31 wash. 245, 71 Pac. 767; State v. Halpin, 16 S. D. 170, 91 N. W. 605; People v. willett, 102 N. Y. 251, 6 N. E. 301; State v. watson, 41 La. Ann. 598, 7 South. 125; State v. Bryan, 112 N. C. 848, 16 S. E. 909
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Felony. The act or offense by which a vassal forfeited hls fee. Spel-man; Calvln. Per feloniam, with a criminal Intention. Co. Lltt. 391
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Feloniously. Anciently an indispensable word in indictments for felony, and classed by Lord Coke among those voces artts (words of art) which cannot be ex-pressed by any periphrasis or circumlocution. 4 Coke, 39; Co. Lltt 391a; 4 Bl. Comm. 307
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A felon of himself; a suicide or murderer of himself, one who deliberately and intentionally puts an end to
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one who has committed felony; one convicted of felony
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