The Consolidated Rail Corporation, commonly known as Conrail (reporting mark CR), was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeast U.S. between 1976 and 1999. Conrail is a portmanteau of consolidated and rail from the name of the company.
Feudalism was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.
A. Feudalism as a political, military, and social system connecting the warrior aristocracy of medieval Europe through bonds of vassalage and by the granting and holding of fiefs. The term 'feudal' was invented by Renaissance Italian jurists to describe what they took to be the common customary law of property.