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Fee
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.
(2):
(n.) property; possession; tenure.
(3):
(n.) Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc.
(4):
(n.) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.
(5):
(n.) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure.
(6):
(v. t.) To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Fee'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/f/fee.html. 1828.
