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- From: schuldy@progress.COM (Mark Schuldenfrei)
- Subject: Re: 4 On Fealty
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:51:11 GMT
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- Tadhg wrote:
- Technically, in period a "fee" was a source of income, typically land.
- Also qualifying in later times were fees and perquisites from an office,
- the "livery and maintenance" given to knights standing castle-guard, and
- the money fief or "fief-rente" (what we would call a pension or annuity).
- I don't think lump-sum payments qualify....
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- So, what's the problem? Why can't any and all of these take place? More
- to the point, in my experience, they do take place.
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- Tibor
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- Mark Schuldenfrei (schuldy@progress.com)
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