It is in proof before your Lordships that they are of two sorts: that a jaghire signifies exactly what the word fee does in the English language, or Feodum in the barbarous Latin of the Feudists; that it is a word which signifies a salary or a maintenance, as did originally the English word fee, derived from the word Feod and Feodum.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XII. (of XII.)"
Edmund Burke
