High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Feudalism as practiced in the Kingdom of England, in the traditional sense, is a state of human society which is formally structured and stratified on the basis of land tenure and the varieties thereof. Society was thus ordered around relationships derived from the holding of land, which landholdings are termed "fiefdoms, fiefs, or fees", which word originates from an ancient common source. These political and military customs existed in medieval Europe, having developed around 700 A.D., flourished up to about the first quarter of the 14th.c. and declined until their legal abolition in England in 1660, with the Tenures Abolition Act.