Tag: FE

  • Feme Covert

    Definition of Feme Covert A married woman ; feme sole, an unmarried woman Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Feme Covert in the Dictionaries, Feme Covert in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, […]

  • Feoffee To Uses

    Definition of Feoffee To Uses A person to whom a feoffment was made to the use of a cestui quc use. This vested the legal estate in the feoffee, who held on behalf of the beneficial owner, the cestui quc use. The Statute of Uses, 1535, turned the use into the legal estate, and the…

  • Feoffment

    Definition of Feoffment Originally, merely the overt or public delivery of the possession of land by the owner (the feoffor) to the grantee or purchaser (the feoffee), consisting of the ceremony called livery of seisin (q.v.). It became usual to put the terms of the conveyance in writing, as a […]

  • Ferae Naturae

    Definition of Ferae Naturae Of a wild nature. See Animals Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Ferae Naturae in the Dictionaries, Ferae Naturae in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the […]

  • Ferry

    Definition of Ferry The right to a ferry is a franchise which can be created only by grant from the Crown, by prescription, or by statute Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Ferry in the Dictionaries, Ferry in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, […]

  • Feud

    Definition of Feud (1) A fee (q.v.). (2) An enmity or a quarrel Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Feud in the Dictionaries, Feud in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the Legal […]

  • Feudal System

    Definition of Feudal System The system of political organisation of States in the Middle Ages, based on land tenure. The King was the ultimate lord of all land. He granted land to his lords in return for military services, and they in their turn made further similar grants, the process known […]

  • Feigned Issue

    Definition of Feigned Issue A mode of deciding questions of fact, by stating that the parties interested in the matter had made a wager upon the truth or falsehood of the propositions, setting out the fact or facts in dispute, and then having the issue tried by a jury Browse You might be […]

  • Ferae Naturae

    Definition of Ferae Naturae Of a wild nature. See Animals Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Ferae Naturae in the Dictionaries, Ferae Naturae in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the […]

  • Fealty

    Definition of Fealty A service which every free tenant (except tenant in frankalmoign) is in theory bound to perform to his feudal lord. It consisted in the tenant taking an oath of fidelity to the lord Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Fealty in […]