单词 | arrière fee |
释义 | arrière feen. Feudal Law. Now rare and historical. A fief which is held from an intermediary rather than the original feoffor; = arrière-fief n.In later use chiefly in dictionaries and works of reference. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > a feudal holding or fief > subfief under-fee1594 arrière fee1615 subfeu1681 arrière-fief1716 subinfeudation1725 sub-fief1729 rere-fief1761 1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 77 Of the contribution of the Ban and Arriere-ban, fee and arriere-fee [Fr. arriere-fief], eleuen millions of liuers. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Arriere Fee,..is a Fee dependent on some other superior one. 1844 H. E. Lloyd tr. F. E. Dahlmann Hist. Eng. Revol. 4 The arrière fees [Ger. Afterlehnen]..were granted for cavalry service. 1916 J. A. Ballentine Law Dict. Words, Terms, Abbrev. & Phrases 26/1 Arrière fee, a fee dependent upon a superior fee. a1981 A. A. Leff in Yale Law Jrnl. (1985) 94 2061 Arriere fee.., in feudal tenure, a fee held of one holding a fee from a still higher lord. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1615 |
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