feu-farmn.
/ˈfjuːfɑːm/, U.S. /ˈfjuˌfɑrm/, Scottish English /ˈfjufarm/ Scots Law.
1. That kind of tenure by which land is held of a superior on payment of a certain yearly rent. Also, to hold in feu-farm, to let in feu-farm, set in feu-farm. Cf. fee-farm n. 1.
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14.. Burgh Laws xcv, in Sc. Stat. I Of landys lattin till feuferme in burgh.
1457 Sc. Acts Jas. II (1597) §72 Vpon setting of few-ferme of his awin land.
1473–4 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 3 Componit for the fewferme of Johne of Sollaris for the grene ȝardis besyde Striueline, composicio xx li.
1564 Sc. Acts Q. Mary (1597) §88 Confirmation to be obteined vpon infeftmentes of few-ferme of the Kirk-landes.
1597 Sc. Acts Jas. VI §246 Ony vassall or fewar, haldand landes in few-ferme.
a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) I. 209 A grant of lands holden in feu-farm.
1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 138 It was not allowable..for the tenants in ‘Ward and Blench’ to sublet their lands in feu~farm.
2. The annual duty or rent paid to a superior by his vassal for tenure of lands.
ΚΠ
c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1825) 137 The rents, few-fermes and maills of the landis of Pendreich.
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