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

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

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