Definition of Subfeu

1. feu [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: feu

Lexicographical Neighbors of Subfeu

subfamily Pythoninae
subfamily Smilacaceae
subfamily Sterninae
subfamily Sylviinae
subfamily Taxodiaceae
subfamily Triglinae
subfamily Uvulariaceae
subfeature
subfeatures
subfemtomolar
subfemtosecond
subfenestral
subfertile
subfertility
subfeu (current term)
subfeued
subfeuing
subfeus
subfibrous
subfield
subfields
subfigure
subfigures
subfile
subfiles
subfilter
subfilters
subfix
subfixes

Literary usage of Subfeu

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Scots Revised Reports, [Court of Session]: Faculty Collection, 1807-1825 by Scotland Court of Session (1906)
"There was undoubtedly a subfeu vested in James Walkinshaw, ... The subfeu to Mr. Macdowall then flowing a non domino, there has been no valid separation of ..."

2. Leading Cases in the Law of Scotland: Prepared from the Original Pleadings by George Ross (1850)
"... would be the consequence if the superior got only a year of the subfeu-duty, and this would give him an easy way, in all cases, to defraud the superior; ..."

3. Digest of the Scottish Law of Conveyancing: Heritable Rights by John Craigie (1887)
"When the subfeu has been granted by the vassal for a price and a ... successor pays a year's legal interest of the price as well as a year's subfeu-duty. ..."

4. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1888)
"(2) The fact that when they object to a subfeu being nominal or temporary (whether this be effected in short form by the alternative holding, ..."

5. Lectures on Conveyancing by Alexander Montgomerie Bell (1876)
"His right, as a holding of the disponer, is a subfeu, ... It is proper, therefore, that, in all cases where the prohibition to subfeu is made a real ..."

6. Decisions of the Court of Session: From November 1825 to [20th July 1841] by John Tawse, F. Somerville, John Craigie, George Robinson, Scotland Court of Session, Charles Gordon Robertson, Scotland High Court of Justiciary, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Faculty of Advocates (Scotland) (1839)
"There is no subfeu-duty chargeable on the « houses conveyed to Dewar's trustees; so that there is no parallel ' between their case and that of the owners of ..."

7. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1858)
"... the superior's composition is measured not by the subfeu-duty alone, but by the subfeu- duty with the addition of the legal interest for one year of the ..."

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