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same basic legal principles in many variations.

Terminology

In ancient Rome, a "benefice" (from the Latin noun beneficium, meaning "benefit") was a gift of land [[precaria]] for life as a reward for services rendered, originally, to the state. In medieval Latin European documents, a land grant in exchange for service continued to be called a beneficium (Latin). Later, the term feudum, or feodum, replaced beneficium in the documents. The first attested

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