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fee farm rent


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fee farm rent - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Fee \Fee\ (f[=e]), n. [OE. fe, feh, feoh, cattle, property,
     money, fief, AS. feoh cattle, property, money; the senses of
     "property, money," arising from cattle being used in early
     times as a medium of exchange or payment, property chiefly
     consisting of cattle; akin to OS. fehu cattle, property, D.
     vee cattle, OHG. fihu, fehu, G. vieh, Icel. f[=e] cattle,
     property, money, Goth. fa['i]hu, L. pecus cattle, pecunia
     property, money, Skr. pa[,c]u cattle, perh. orig., "a
     fastened or tethered animal," from a root signifying to bind,
     and perh. akin to E. fang, fair, a.; cf. OF. fie, flu, feu,
     fleu, fief, F. fief, from German, of the same origin. the
     sense fief is due to the French. [root]249. Cf. Feud,
     Fief, Fellow, Pecuniary.]
     1. property; possession; tenure. "Laden with rich fee."
        --Spenser.
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              Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee.
                                                    --Wordsworth.
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     2. Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be
        rendered; especially, payment for professional services,
        of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge;
        pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians;
        the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage
        fees, etc.
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              To plead for love deserves more fee than hate.
                                                    --Shak.
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     3. (Feud. Law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a
        stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so
        held; a fief.
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     4. (Eng. Law) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held
        either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and
        absolutely vested in the owner.
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     Note: All the land in England, except the crown land, is of
           this kind. An absolute fee, or fee simple, is land
           which a man holds to himself and his heirs forever, who
           are called tenants in fee simple. In modern writers, by
           fee is usually meant fee simple. A limited fee may be a
           qualified or base fee, which ceases with the existence
           of certain conditions; or a conditional fee, or fee
           tail, which is limited to particular heirs.
           --Blackstone.
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     5. (Amer. Law) An estate of inheritance belonging to the
        owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and
        simply, without condition attached to the tenure.
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     Fee estate (Eng. Law), land or tenements held in fee in
        consideration or some acknowledgment or service rendered
        to the lord.
  
     Fee farm (Law), land held of another in fee, in
        consideration of an annual rent, without homage, fealty,
        or any other service than that mentioned in the feoffment;
        an estate in fee simple, subject to a perpetual rent.
        --Blackstone.
  
     Fee farm rent (Eng. Law), a perpetual rent reserved upon a
        conveyance in fee simple.
  
     Fee fund (Scot. Law), certain court dues out of which the
        clerks and other court officers are paid.
  
     Fee simple (Law), an absolute fee; a fee without conditions
        or limits.
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              Buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a
              quarter.                              --Shak.
  
     Fee tail (Law), an estate of inheritance, limited and
        restrained to some particular heirs. --Burill.
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fee farm rent - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  FEE FARM RENT, contracts, Eng. law. When the lord, upon the creation of a 
  tenancy, reserves to himself and his heirs, either the rent for which it was 
  before let to farm, or at least one-fourth part of that farm rent, it is 
  called a fee farm rent, because a farm rent is reserved upon a grant in fee. 
  2 Inst. 44.