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Fiefdom
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Fiefdom
A popular term for the quasi-autonomous ‘territory’ that a particular physician in a Balkanized organization (e.g., the faculty practice plan of an academic medical centre) considers to be his or her own
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The indenture by which they did so includes legal language to cover every contingency, and was originally accompanied by a long list of supporting docments, including a deed of feoffment from John Layston to Thomas Fanshawe and other documents supporting Alice Layston's version of the story.
Alice Layston and the Cross Keys by Kathman, David / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
DeVine, The Concept of Epieikeia in the Chancellor of England's Enforcement of the Feoffment to Uses Before 1535, 21 U.
Four theses: preliminary to an appeal to equity by Shanske, Darien / Stanford Law Review
I also rather enjoyed going to my OED to look up such arcane words as chough, becket, feoffment, eftsoons, advowsons, and mumpsimus.
Thomas Cranmer by Cunningham, Lawrence S. / Commonweal
 
 
 
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