Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

FERCOSTA

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FEODUM

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. §§ 1,13; Bract, fol. 175; Glan. 13, 23. In old English law. A seigniory or ju risdiction. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 63, § 4. A fee; a perquisite or compensation for a service. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 7. FEODUM ANTIQUUM. Afeud which devolved upon a vassal from his intestate an cestor. Feodum est quod quis tenet ex qua cunque causa sive sit tenementum sive reditus. Co. Litt. 1. A fee is that which any one holds from whatever cause, whether tenement or rent. FEODUM NOBILE. A fief for which the tenant did guard and owed homage. Spel man. FEODUM NOVUM. A feud acquired by a vassal himself. Feodum simplex quia feodum idem est quod hsereditas, et simplex idem est quod legitimum vel purum; et sic feo dum simplex idem est quod hsereditas legitima vel hsereditas pura. Litt. § 1. A fee-simple, so called because fee is the same as inheritance, and simple is the same as lawful or pure; and thus fee-simple is the same as a lawful inheritance, or pure inher itance. Feodum talliatum, i. e., hsereditas in quandam certitudinem limitata. Litt. § 13. Fee-tail, i. e., an inheritance limited in a definite descent. FEOFFAMENTUM. A feoffment. 2 Bl. Comm. 310. FEOFFARE. To enfeoff; to bestow a fee. The bestower was called "feoffator," and the grantee or feoffee, "feoffatus. " FEOFFATOR. In old English law. A feoff or; one who gives or bestows a fee; one who makes a feoffment. Bract, fols. 126, 81. FEOFFATUS. In old English law. A feoffee; one to whom a fee is given, or a feoff nent made. Bract, fols. 176, 446. FEOFFEE. He to whom a fee is con veyed. Litt. § 1; 2 Bl. Comm. 20.

FEOFFEE TO USES. A person to whom land was conveyed for the use of a third party. The latter was called "cestui que use." FEOFFMENT. The gift of any corpo real hereditament to another, (2 Bl. Comm. 310,) operating by transmutation of posses sion, and requiring, as essential to its com pletion, that the seisin be passed, (Watk. Conv. 183,) which might be accomplished either by investiture or by livery of seisin. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 33. Also the deed or conveyance by which such corporeal hereditament is passed. A feoffment originally meant the grant of a feud orjee; that is, a barony or knight's fee, for which certain services were due from the feoffee to the feoff or. This was the proper sense of the word; but by custom it came afterwards to signify also a grant (with livery of seisin) of a free inheritance to a man and his heirs, referring rather to the per petuity of the estate than to the feudal tenure. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 90, 91. It was for ages the only method (in ordinary use) for conveying the free hold of land in possession, but has now fallen in great measure into disuse, even in England, hav ing been almost entirely supplanted by some of that class of conveyances founded on the statute law of the realm. 1 Steph. Comm. 467, 468. FEOFFMENT TO USES. A feoffment of lands to one person to the use of another. FEOFFOR. The person making a feoff ment, or enfeoffing another in fee. 2 Bl Comm. 310; Litt. §§ 1, 57. PEOH. This Saxon word meant origi nally 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 feu dal grant of land) have been derived. FEONATIO. In forest law. The fawn ing season of deer. FEORME. A certain portion of the prod uce of the land due by the grantee to the lord according to the terms of the charter. Spel. Feuds, c. 7. FER.EJ BESTIR. Wild beasts. NATURE. Lat. Of a wild nature or disposition. Animals which are by nature wild are so designated, by way of distinction from such as are naturally tame, the latter being called "domitce natures.*' FERCOSTA. Ital. A kind of small vessel or boat. Mentioned in old Scotch law, and called "fercost." Skene.

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