noun
- The act or process of granting land in fee or on a long-term lease, especially in Scottish law.
Usage: Scottish legal term; historical
verb
- Present participle of 'feu': to grant land in fee or on a long-term lease.
Usage: Scottish legal term; historical
Examples
- The landowner was feuing parcels of his estate to local farmers.
- Feuing became a common practice in Scotland during the medieval period.
- The contract outlined the terms of feuing the property for ninety-nine years.
- He made his fortune by feuing land to merchants in the growing town.
- The feuing arrangement allowed tenants to build permanent structures on the land.