| 单词 | of lay fee |
| 释义 | > as lemmasof lay fee 1. A fee or estate in land held in consideration of secular services, as distinguished from an ecclesiastical fee. †Also phrase of lay fee (cf. fee n.2 1b). ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > a feudal holding or fief > secular lay-feec1290 c1290 Beket 560 in S. Eng. Leg. 122 Ȝif ani man of holi churche halt ani-þing of lay-fe [c1300 (Percy Soc.) 556 holdeth eni laifeo]..he schal done þere-fore Þe seruice þat to þe kinge bi-fallez. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 285 ‘Sir’, þe bisshop said, ‘of þis we pray þe, Þat..nouht of our lay fe Be taxed with non of ȝours’. c1535 Ploughman's Tale iii. sig. C.iv Therwith they purchase hem lay fee In londe, there hem lyketh best. 1553 T. Becon Relikes of Rome (1563) 246 b Al yt..maken holy churche Layfee, yt is halowed and blessed. 1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 148 An Inventory of such Goods and Chattels, as they shall finde in the Lay-fee of the party deceased. 1750 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 283 Arrogating to his own courts the cognisance of lay-fees in the case of persons of the first quality. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. viii. 182 Besides his archbishopric, he held the county of Evreux as a lay fee. < as lemmas |
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