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fee-farm Law.|ˈfiːfɑːm|
Also Sc. feu-farm.
[a. AF. fee-ferme, OF. feuferme, fiofferme; Anglo-Lat. (12th c.) had feudofirma, feudifirma, and the phrase firmam in feudo tenere; in continental use occur feudum firmum, feudalis firma, firma feudata; see fee n.2 and farm n.2]
1. That kind of tenure by which land is held in fee-simple subject to a perpetual fixed rent, without any other services; the estate of the tenant in land so held; rarely, the land itself.
It is a debated question whether a fee-farm merely implies a perpetual rent of any kind, or whether it should be confined to a perpetual rent-service, or to a perpetual rent-charge equivalent to at least a fourth of the value of the land.
[1114Charter in Chr. Mon. Abingdon (Rolls) II. 110 Quoddam pratum..in firma perpetuo habendum pro xx solidis reddendis unoquoque. 1292Britton i. i. §6 Si la fraunchise ne soit graunté en fee ferme..par nous. Ibid. iii. ii. §8 Fee fermes sount terres tenuz en fee a rendre pur eux par an la verreye value, ou plus ou meyn.] c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. x, In grete lordshippes, maneres, ffee ffermys, and such other demaynes. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 438 He grauntyd to the cytezyns the fee ferme of London for .ccc. li. 1555Eden Decades 249 Such as had the same in fee ferme. 1627Speed England xxviii. §7 Hurstingston..was the Fee-farme of Ramsey Abbey. 1643in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 304 The king is forced to set many of his lands to fee-farm. 1650Weldon Crt. Jas. I, 60 Hee [Salisbury] would make them buy Books of Fee-farmes. 1652Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 289 What was in lease from the Crown..he would secure to us in fee-farm.
fig.1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iii. ii. 53 How now, a kisse in fee-farme? 1678Marvell Growth Popery Wks. 1875 IV. 326 Were not all the votes as it were in fee-farm, of those that were intrusted with the sale?
2. The rent paid for an estate so held.
1399Langl. Rich. Redeles iv. 4 Alle his ffynys ffor ffautis ne his ffee ffermes. c1520in Fiddes Wolsey ii. (1726) 26 Towchyng the mynyshyng of our Fee farme enenst the lorde of Ruteland. 1598J. Manwood Lawes Forest xxi. §4 (1615) 201 Paying unto the King a certain fee ferme or rent for y⊇ same. 1682Enq. Elect. Sheriffs 32 King John..granted..to the Citizens..the Sheriffwick of London and Middlesex..by the fee-farm of 300l. per Annum.
3. attrib. esp. in fee-farm-rent.
1638Sir R. Cotton Abstr. Rec. Tower 12 Their abilities will settle the Fee-farme rent. 1710Lond. Gaz. No. 4702/3 To be sold a Fee-Farm-Rent of 20l. per Annum. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) V. ix. vi. 287 The fee farm payment to Rome. 1881Act 44–5 Vict. c. 49 §34 The land commission shall..dispose of all fee farm rents for the time being vested in them. 1882Earl of Belmore in 19th Cent. July 126 By way of fines and fee-farm grants.
Hence fee-farming vbl. n., the action or practice of putting out to fee-farm.
1549Latimer 6th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 168 He hath inuented fee fermyng of benefices. |