FEUDA

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  FEUDA. In the early feudal times grants were made, in the first place, only 
  during the pleasure of the grantor, and called muncra; (q.v.) afterwards 
  for life, called beneficia; (q.v.) and, finally, they were extended to the 
  vassal and his sons, and then they acquired the name of feudal. Dalr. Feud. 
  Pr. 199.