Census (feudal tax)

Census and censive are two terms related to the organization of the landed seigneury system, linked to the feudal system. The census is a fee (“payer le cens”), sometimes called “censive”; while censive was either a fee, or the land (often called tenure by historiography) on which the fee was levied (also known as “terre censale”), or the way of owning land (land held in censive, i.e. neither in fief nor in freehold).