the hinder or posterior part of anything.

ARRIERE Ban, in the French customs, was a general proclamation, whereby the king summoned to war all that held of him, both his vassals, i.e. the noblesse, and the vassals of his vassals.

ARRIERE Fee, or Fief, is a fee dependent on a superior one. These fees commenced, when the dukes and counts, rendering 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.