Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FEE'-FARM, n. [fee and farm.]

A kind of tenure of estates without homage, fealty or other service, except that mentioned in the feofiment, which is usually the full rent. The nature of this tenure is, that if the rent is in arrear or unpaid for two years, the feoffor and his heirs may have an action for the recovery of the lands. Encyc.