noun. A right or privilege: a term more especially of the civil law: as, beneficium abstinendi, that is, right of abstaining, the power of an heir to abstain from accepting the inheritance.

noun. In feudal law, a benefice.

"The struggle with the curia began at the Diet of Besancon, where Rainald vigorously rejected the use of the word beneficium, which might mean fief as well as benefit."

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