Glossary. 393 



Curtesie of Engl and =The life tenure by a husband of liis deceased wife's 

 estates in fee simple, when he .has had issue by her of those who 

 might succeed. 



Decuma = 'Rom3.n State dues from the land's produce. 



Denshiring = 'Paving, drying, heaping and burning of turf. 



Deiv retting ^Spreading of hemp on a water meadow. 



Z>6t/e= Dairy woman. 



Diclall=K sharp triangular spade. 



Dorf=K. German village. 



Pome'nmm = Seignorial rights over land. 



Douer ploiv beetle — A large beetle-shaped iron instrument fixed to the 



plough, partly in order to prevent the furrow glazing, partly to cover 



the seed. 

 Drageum—Kr). inferior barley. 



Emphyteusis^The farming of lands to military tenants : derivation, 



ivcpvTevdi, I graft on, because a second dominium was grafted on to 



the original seignorial ownership. 

 ^/i(Zo5'a7n?/= Intermarriage of the members of a tribe. 

 Eorl=A noble. 



Eorldorman=T'h.Q head magistrate of a shire. 

 Eso gamy— Equality by marriage. 

 Essoin=Aa excuse, such as sickness or infirmity, raised by one summoned 



to appear or answer to an action, or to perform suit to a court 



Baron, etc. 

 .E6'^oyers= Necessaries of life taken from the waste by popular usage. 



F. 



Feldmarck= German lands held in villeinage. 



Feme covert = Married woman. 



Feoffment = Grant of manors, etc. 



Feuar—l>i or th. country term for tenant. 



Feud, Feu, Fief = A right to lands and hereditaments held by performance 

 of military service. 



Fiction of Common Recovery =See page 252. 



Fimble=Th.e early yellow variety of hemp. 



Fine— A final agreement or conveyance upon record, for the settling and 

 assuring of lands and tenements. 



Formedon—A writ that lieth for him who has a right to lands or tene- 

 ments by virtue of any entail. 



Frank Marriage— VJh.erQ a man, seised of land in fee simple, gives it to 

 another with his daughter, sister, etc., in marriage, to hold to them 

 and their heirs. 



