| 单词 | to take fee |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take (a person's) fee a. Feudal Law. An estate in land (in England always a heritable estate), held on condition of homage and service to a superior lord, by whom it is granted and in whom the ownership remains; a fief, feudal benefice. †to take (a person's) fee: to become his vassal. Now historical. ecclesiastical fee (Latin feodum ecclesiasticum): one held by an ecclesiastical person or corporation, and not owing any but spiritual service. knight's fee, lay fee: see knight n., lay adj. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > a feudal holding or fief feec1330 feoffmentc1330 servicec1390 fief1611 feud1614 feudatoryc1660 benefice1753 fee-estate1775 feu1791 feudality1800 fiefdom1814 seigneury1903 1292 Britton iii. ii. §1 Plusours maneres des feez sount et de tenures.] c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 63 Þerfor vnto þam tuo he gaf Griffyns feez. c1400 Melayne 1371 Allas..That ever I tuke thi fee! 1473 J. Warkworth Chron. 23 A generalle resumpcion of alle lordschippes..and feys grawntede be the Kynge. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 105 Feodum, or fee, is that which is held of some superior, on condition of rendering him service. 1824 E. Baines Hist. Lancaster I. 608 The great fee, or lordship of Pontefract, was vested in them. 1845 J. Williams Princ. Law Real Prop. i. ii. 34 The word fee (feudum) anciently meant any estate feudally held of another person. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. ii. xi. 583 [Of the Counties Palatine] there remain now only those of Lancaster and Durham..the latter formerly an ecclesiastical fee belonging to the Bishop of Durham. < as lemmas |
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