feu-farm Sc. Law.
(ˈfjuːfɑːm)
[ad. OF. feuferme: see fee-farm.]
1. That kind of tenure by which land is held of a superior on payment of a certain yearly rent. Also, to hold, let, set in feu-farm. Cf. fee-farm 1.
| 14.. Burgh Laws xcv. (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 Ld. Treas. Acc. Scot. 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. a 1768 Erskine Instit. Sc. Law (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.
| 1582–8 Hist. Jas. VI (1804) 224 The rentis, few fermes, and mealls of the lands of Pendreith. |