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benefice

In the early Middle Ages, a donation of land or money to the Christian church as an act of devotion; from the 12th century, the term came to mean the income enjoyed by clergy.

Under the Carolingian dynasty, ‘benefice’ was used to mean a gift of land from a lord to a vassal, in which sense it is often indistinguishable from a fief.
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