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Webster 1913 Edition


Feoffee

Feof-fee′

(?; 277)
,
Noun.
[OF.
feoffé
.]
(Law)
The person to whom a feoffment is made; the person enfeoffed.

Webster 1828 Edition


Feoffee

FEOFFEE

,
Noun.
feffee'. A person who is infeoffed, that is, invested with a fee or corporeal hereditament.

Definition 2024


feoffee

feoffee

English

Noun

feoffee (plural feoffees)

  1. A vassal holding a fief.
    "[...] this quiz with all the strange old terms in it, curtilage and messuage and socage and fee simple and fee tail and feoffee and copyhold and customary freehold and mortmain and devises and lex loci rei sitae." Rabbit at Rest, John Updike

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