FEE 
fmiple to all that are living. Co. Lit. 3 . A feoffment to 
B. £3 heredibus, without faying Juis, gives him a fee-fitri¬ 
ple. So to a fon, and the heirs of his father. Co.Lit. 220, 6 . 
So to B. & liberis fuis and their heirs ; if he has ifiue, it 
gives them a joint eftate in fee. So to B. heredibus £ 3 fuc - 
eejforibus Juis, gives a fee. Co. Lit. 9 a. So a grant to the 
Ling in perpetuum gives him a fee,, without the words his 
heirs or fuccejfors, for lie never dies. Co. Lit. 9 b. So a 
feoffment to a corporation aggregate in perpetuum gives a 
fee, for it never dies, r Rol. £32. Or, to a corporation 
foie, to be held in frankalmoigne. Co. Lit. 9 b. So if A. re¬ 
enfeoffs B. adeo plene as B. enfeoffed him, he has a fee 
without the word heirs. Co.Lit.<)b. This muff mean where 
A. had an eftate in fee of the feoffment of B. So a grant 
to the church of B. gives a fee, without the words heirs 
m'fuccejfors. 1 Rol. 833. And a limitation to the right heirs 
of B. gives a fee, without the words and their heirs. 1 Rol. 
133, So a fee may be given without the words his heirs, 
by fine fur conuzancc de droit come ceo, ( 3 c. or by a common 
recovery. Co. Lit. yb. So a fee pafl'es without the words 
his heirs , where a man gives land with his daughter. See. 
in frankmarriage. So if a parcener, or joint-tenant, re¬ 
leafes to his companion. Or if the lord, &c. releafes to 
the tertenant; which enures by way of extinguifhment. 
Or if a man releafes a mere l ight ; as where a diffeiffee re¬ 
leafes to the diffeifor all his right. Co. Lit. 9 b. So if a 
rent be granted upon partition, for owelty (or equality) of 
partition. So if a peer be fummoned to parliament by 
■writ, he has a fee in his dignity, without the word heirs. 
So, by the foreft law, if the king at a juftice feat, grants 
to another an ajfart in perpetuum, without more, he has a 
fee, So, 4 by cuftom, a grant of a copyhold, fibi ( 3 fuis, or 
fbi & afjignatis, may give the inheritance. 4 Co. 29 b. A 
fee-fimple determinable upon a contingency, is a fee to all 
intents; though not fo durable as abfolute fee. Vaugk. 273. 
The fee-fimple eftate, being the chief and moft excel¬ 
lent ; he who hath it in lands or tenements may give, 
grant, or charge, the fame by deed or will at his pleafure ; 
or he may make wafte or fpoil upon it: and if he bind 
hinrfelf and his heirs to warranty, or for money by obli¬ 
gation, or otherwife, and leave fuch land to the heir, it 
fhall be charged with warranty and debts - alfo the wife of 
a man that is feifed of fuch an eftate, fhall be endowed ; 
and the hufband of a woman having this eftate, fhall be 
tenant by the curtefy. Co. Lit. 273. But though fee-ftm- 
ple is the moft ample eftate of inheritance, it is fubject to 
many incumbrances ; as judgments, ftatutes, mortgages, 
fines, jointures, dower, &c. And there is a fee-fimple 
conditional, where the eftate is defeafible by not perform¬ 
ing the condition ; and a qualified fee-fimple, which-may 
be defeated by a limitation, &c. This is called a bafe fee , 
upon which no reverfion or remainder can be expectant. 
Co. Lit. 18. — See the articles Descent, Estate, and 
Tenure; 
FEE-FARM, or Fee-Farm Rent, is when the lord, 
upon creation of a tenancy, referves to himfelf and his 
heirs, either the rent for which it was before let to farm, 
or was reafonably worth, or at leaft a fourth part of the 
value ; without homage, fealty, or other fervices, beyond 
what are efpecially comprifed in the feoffment. Lord Coke 
fays, fee-farm rents may be one half, a third, or fourth, 
part of the value. Co. Lit. 143. Thefe fee-farm rents feem 
to be, more or lefs, according to the conditions or confi- 
deration of the purchafe of the lands out of which they 
are iffuing. It is the nature of fee-farm, that if the rent 
be behind and unpaid for the fpace of two years, then the 
feoftor or his heirs may bring an action to recover the 
lands, &c. Brit. c. 66. 
The fee-farm rents remaining to-the kings of England 
from their ancient demefnes, called Fee-Farm Rents of 
the Crown, were many of them alienated in the reign 
of Charles II. By fiats. 22 Car. II. c. 6. 22&23Car. II. 
c. 24, explained by ftat. 10 Anne, c. 18, the king was ena¬ 
bled by letters patent to grant fee-farm rents due in right 
<®f his crown, or in right of his duchies of Lancafter and 
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Cornwall, except quit-rents, &c. to trnftees to make fale 
thereof, and the trnftees were to convey the fame by bar¬ 
gain and fale to purchafers, Sec. who may recover the 
fame as the king might. But it has been obferved, that 
men were fo very doubtful of the title to alienations of 
this nature, that while thefe rents were expofed to fale 
for ready money, fcarcely any one would deal for them, 
and they remained unfold : but what afterwards made 
men earned to buy them, was the flop upon fome of his 
majefty’s other payments, which occasioned perfons to re¬ 
fort to this.as the moft eligible in that conjuncture. No 
tenant in tail of any of the faid rents, is enabled to bar 
the remainder. 
FEE-TAIL. See the article Tail. 
FEE'BLE, adj. [foible, Fr.] Weak; debilitated; lick- 
ly ; infirm ; without ftrength of body or mind.—The mere- 
carried all the feeble upon affes to Jericho. 2 Chron. —We 
carry the image of God in 11s, a rational and immortal 
foul; and though we be now miferable and feeble, yet we 
afpire after eternal happinefs, and finally expeCt a great 
exaltation of all our natural powers. Bentley. 
Rhyme is a crutch that helps the weak along, 
Supports the feeble , but retards the ftrong. Smith . 
To FEE'BLE, v.a. To weaken; to enfeeble; to de*« 
prive of ftrength or power. Not in ufe :j 
Shall that victorious hand be feebled here. 
That in your chambers gave you chaftifement ? Shakefpr 
FEEBLEMIN'DED, adj. Weak of mind; defective in 
refolution and conftancy.—Warn them that are unruly, 
comfort the feebleminded, fupport the weak, be patient to¬ 
ward all men. 1 Thejf. 
FEE'BLENESS, f. Weaknefs; imbecility; infirmity3 
want of ftrength.—Some in their latter years, through the. 
feeblenejs of their limbs, have been forced to ftudy upoa 
their knees. South. 
A better head Rome’s glorious body fits. 
Than his that (hakes for age and fecblenifs. Shakejpeare* 
FEE'BLESSE, f. [foibleje, Fr.] Feeblenefs : 
They palling forth kept on their ready way, 
With eafy fteps fo foft as foot eeuld ftryde. 
Both for great feeblejfe which did oft affay 
Fair Amoret, See. Spcnfer „• 
FEE'BLY, adv. Weakly; without ftrength: 
Like mine, thy gentle numbers feebly creep, 
Thy tragic mufe gives fmiles, thy comic fleep. Drydcn. 
To FEED, v.a. [ fodan , Goth, peban, poeban, Sax.J 
To fupply with food.—Bcerhaave fed a fparrow with 
bread four days, in which time it eat more than.its own 
weight. Arbuthnot. 
Her heart and bowels through her back he drew. 
And fed the hounds that help’d him to purfue. Dryden. 
To fupply ; to furniffi.—A conftant fmoke rifes from the 
warm fprings that feed the many baths with which the 
ifland is (locked. Addfon.—To graze ; to confume by 
cattle.—Once in three years feed your mowing lands, if 
you cannot get manure conftantly to keep them in hearts 
Mortimer. —To nourifh; to cherifh : 
How oft from pomp and ftate did I remove. 
To feed defpair, and cherifh hopelefs love { Prior . 
To keep in hope or expectation.—Barbaroffa learned the 
ftrength of the emperor, craftily feeding him with the hope 
of liberty. Knolles. —To delight; to entertain; to keep 
from fatiety.—The alteration of feenes, fo it be without 
noife, feeds and relieves the eye, before it be full of the 
fame objeCl. Bacon .—To make tit. A provincial ufe. 
To FEED, v. n. To take food. Chiefly applied to ani¬ 
mal food : 
To feed were beft at home ; 
From thence the fauce to meat is cese/ocny; 
Meeting were bare without it, Shakfpeare, 
