the hinder or posterior part of any thing. See Rear.

ARRIERE-ban, in the French customs, is a general proclamation, whereby the king summons to the war all that hold of him, both his vassals, i.e. the noblesse, and the vassals of his vassals.

ARRIERE fee, or fief, is a fee dependant on a superior one. These fees commenced, when the dukes and counts, endeavoring their governments hereditary in their families, distributed to their officers parts of the royal domains, which they found in their respective provinces; and even permitted those officers to gratify the soldiers under them in the same manner.