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Definition of Feods
1. feod [n] - See also: feod
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feods
Literary usage of Feods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Perpetuity: Or, Remoteness in Limitations by William David Lewis (1843)
"The alienation of feods. Gradual relaxation of feodal strictness in this respect
... We have seen that upon strict feodal principles, feods were inalienable ..."
2. Origines Patriciae, Or, A Deduction of European Titles of Nobility and by Robert Thomas Hampson (1846)
"Seiden and Palgrave on the origin of feods. 35.— Reasons why the German conquerors
could not adopt Roman laws and customs. ..."
3. The Town Book of the Corporation of Belfast, 1613-1816 by Robert Magill Young (1892)
"... of the same non sol feods John Doake husbandman was ... the 22th of Apprill
1647 non sol feods Walter Mapus Glover admitted & sworne die A Anno ..."
4. The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke (1890)
"We are further to tell your lordships, that by the custom of the empire they are
almost all grown as the feods in Europe are grown by use into something ..."
5. Writings and Speeches by Edmund Burke (1901)
"We are farther to tell your Lordships, that by the custom of the empire they are
almost all grown, as the feods in Europe are grown, by use, into something ..."
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