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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 320 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FIEF  , a feudal

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estate in
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land, land held from a
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superior (see
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FEUDALISM) . The word is the
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French
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form, which is represented in
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Medieval Latin as feudum or feodum, and in
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English as"
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fee" or "
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feu " (see FEE) . The A.Fr. feoffer, to invest with a fief or fee, has given the English
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law terms" feoffee " and"
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feoffment (q.v.) .

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