Fee

fe, n. Property; po e ion; reward for services, esp. payment for profe ional services; charge. (Feud. Law.) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; land so held; a fief. (Eng. Law.) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign. (Amer. Law.) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, without condition attached to the tenure. — v. t. [feed (fed), feeing.] To reward for services, recompense, hire, bribe. — Fee'-farm, n. (Law.) Land held of another in fee, at an annual farm or rent; estate in fee-simple, subject to a perpetual rent. — sim'ple, n. An absolute fee; fee without conditions or limits. — Fief, fef, n. An estate held on condition of military service; fee; feud.— Feoff, f Cf. n. A fief. — v. t. [feoffed (feft), -fing.] To invest with a fee or feud; to enfeoff. — Feud, Feod, fud, n. A stipendiary estate in land, held by service; fief; fee. — Feud'al, Feod'al, a. Pert, to, consisting of, or founded on, etc. — Feudality, -tt, n. State or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.— Feud'ary, -atary, -atory, -rl, a. Held by feudal tenure.— Feu7 daliza'tion, n. Act of reducing to, etc. — Feud'alism, -izm, n. The feudal svstem.