“The regional manager oversaw a sprawling fief of various departments within the corporate bureaucracy.”

“Her parents were a baron and baroness and they had an older son as well that was to inherit the fief.”

“The fief was usually land necessary to maintain the vassal, but oftentimes the vassal would receive regular payments of money from a lord.”

“They only wanted to continue to operate their little fiefdom as far from public scrutiny as possible.”

“The intellectual elite often denounce his proclamations as transgressing outside his jurisdictional fiefdom.”

“Can the county council cabinet can now treat Wiltshire like some private fiefdom?”

“They have gathered up our democratic powers piece by piece, taking these powers into their own private fiefdoms.”

“When he abdicated his throne, the Princes were each given their own fiefdoms.”

“Bad loans were ballooning, costs were skyrocketing, and warring fiefdoms from its three merged banks were resisting change.”

“But in 1086 William forced all his vassals to swear service directly to him for their fiefs.”

“I have never been to the northern fiefs, and those lands will be mine before Neleva.”

“After complicated manoeuvring on both sides, in 1202 King Philip announced that John had forfeited the Plantagenet fiefs in France.”