Sc. Law. [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 in all or in part.
1473–4. Ld. Treas. Accts. 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, of our Soveraine Lord.
a. 1768. Erskine, Instit. Sc. Law (1773), I. 209. A grant of lands holden in feu-farm.
1872. E. W. Robertson, Historical Essays, 138. It was not allowable, before the passing of this Act, for the tenants in ‘Ward and Blench’ to sublet their lands in feu-farm, the Crown itself being restricted from such a course in royal demesnes.
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.
