feu-contractn. the contract regulating the giving out of land in feu, between the superior and vassal.
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a1859 J. AustinLect. Jurispr. (1879) II. lii. 879 The feu-contract is in the nature of a perpetual lease and is in Scotland the usual mode of letting land for building purposes.