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amilies, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed. Mutual feuds and battles betwixt their several tribes and kindreds. Purchas.

Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures.

The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.

An upholder of feudalism.

The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution. Burke.

The act of reducing to feudal tenure.

To reduce toa feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism.

In a feudal manner.

Held by, or pertaining to, feudal tenure.

See Feudatory.

A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief. The grantee . . . was styled the feudatory or vassal. Blackstone. [He] had for feudatories great princes. J. H. Newman.

A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law. Spelman.

To deprive of the feudal character or form.

The act of putting one in possession of an estate in fee. Sir M. Hale.

The granting of lands by inferior lords to their dependents, to be held by themselves by feudal tenure. Craig.

To free from feudal customs or character; to make not feudal. Carlyle.

Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.

m; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system. Blackstone.

eing subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. Blackstone. Bouvier.

Arriere fee, Arriere fief, a fee or fief dependent on a superior fee, or a fee held of a feudatory. -- Arriere vassal, the vassal of a vassal.