单词 | fee farm |
释义 | fee farmnoun Law, chiefly historical 1An estate or land held in fee simple subject to a perpetual fixed rent.On the other hand, accountability for the fee farm was transferred to new officers - two city sheriffs (a reflection of the city's new county status) - who were otherwise subordinate to the mayor....
1.1 [mass noun] The tenure of a fee farm or farms.Historians have debated whether grant of fee farm automatically involved the right of the burgesses to elect their own officer to take responsibility for collecting the farm and accounting for it at the Exchequer. 1.2 [mass noun] The rent paid for the tenure of a fee farm or farms.This grant of 1403, which the king subsequently endorsed, gave to the community of Maldon, in exchange for a fee farm of £6.13s.4d, the following properties, jurisdictions, and revenues....
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