fief


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Synonyms for fief

a piece of land held under the feudal system

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There are four distinct institutional types--markets, bureaucracies, fiefs and clans--associated with different types of informational complexity, necessitating different informational strategies.
Reynolds sets aside the Marxist model of feudalism, which considers nobles in relation to peasants and the whole economy, and concentrates instead on "the system of feudal and vassal institutions," in which the key institutions are the fief and vassalage (1).
The central be fief of Christianity is that all humans would spend eternity in hell because they inherited the original sin of Adam and Eve, their presumed common ancestors, except that God validated salvation through baptism by being born and crucified.
From Frederick II he received a small fief, and it is likely that he spent the rest of his life there.
Thus by linking bounded rationality to transactional vagueness or a lack of adequate codification on the one hand, and opportunism to the presence of impacted information and its non-diffusability on the other, 'human nature as we know it' -- to use Williamson's own expression -- becomes the determining element in a conceptual framework that gives bounded rationality and opportunism their maximum scope in Fief transactions and virtually eliminates them in markets, conceived of here as ideal types (Figure 1).
As a result of John's famous quarrel with Pope Innocent III over the selection of Stephen Langton as archbishop of Canterbury, England was laid under an interdict and the king was declared deposed; in 1213, however, John submitted to the pope, going so far as to make England a fief of the papacy.
Par contre, les autres duels de ces quarts ont ete marques par des resultats plus ou moins logiques dont la defaite, lourde et severe, (5-0) d'Al Ahly du Caire devant Mameldo Sandows dans son fief a Pretoria.
L'aviation de cette coalition sous commandement saoudien, qui soutient les forces progouvernementales au Yemen, a touche [beaucoup moins que] par erreur [beaucoup plus grand que] un vehicule a Razah, dans la province de Saada, fief des Houthis, et tue ses cinq passagers, [beaucoup moins que] des civils [beaucoup plus grand que], selon ce responsable gouvernemental.
A rappeler que Khalifa Haftar, un general a la retraite, a lance vendredi dernier une operation avec un groupe appele la Brigade 17-Fevrier ', contre des groupes qu'il a qualifies de terroristes ' a Benghazi, fief de nombreuses milices islamistes lourdement armees .Les affrontements ont fait au moins 79 morts et 141 blesses vendredi dans la ville de Benghazi .
L'ONG a mene une enquete sur place et interroge 35 personnes, y compris des survivants de l'attaque menee par des rebelles contre dix villages le 4 aout (premier jour l'Eid el Fitr) dans la province de Lattaquie, fief du president Bachar al-Assad, precise le rapport de 105 pages.
But the RLD chief seems to have shown very little interest in it simply because he wants it near his fief in Baghpat or at least between Mathura and Agra.