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  • 41Fief du Plessis de Préaux — Logis du Plessis de Préaux Le Logis du Plessis, était situé en Mayenne, à Préaux, lieux dit Le Plessis . C est désormais un hameau, située à 500 m au Nord du bourg. Sommaire 1 Désignation 2 Historique 3 Seigneurs du Plessis …

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  • 42Fief militum — Lit. fief of the knights . Cf. Feudum loricae; Fief …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • 43Fief-rent — money paid by a lord in an annual manner to a vassal in return for homage, fealty, and military service (usually knight service) and it could include various other things than money, such as wine, cheese. provide chickens, or wood. The amount of… …

    Medieval glossary

  • 44fief-tenant — /fiyf tenant/ In old English law, the holder of a fief or fee; a feeholder or freeholder …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 45fief-tenant — /fiyf tenant/ In old English law, the holder of a fief or fee; a feeholder or freeholder …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 46fief tenant — The holder of a fief or fee …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 47fief — noun /fiːf/ a) An estate held of a superior on condition of military service. b) Something over which one has rights or exercises control. Syn: manor See Also: fiefdom …

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  • 48Fief — [fee] Land which was held of a superior lord in return for which service mostly military and *homage was offered. This chain of homage and service reached upwards to the monarch. Such land became heritable by the 12c. Our sense of the word fee as …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • 49fief — Synonyms and related words: copyhold, equitable estate, estate at sufferance, estate for life, estate for years, estate in expectancy, estate in fee, estate in possession, estate tail, fee, fee simple, fee tail, feod, feodum, feud, feudal estate …

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  • 50fief — see FEE …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins