feoffee

[ fef-ee, fee-fee ]

noun

1. a person invested with a fief.

Other Words From

• feoff·eeship noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of feoffee¹

1275–1325; Middle English feoffe < Anglo-French, past participle of feoffer to feoff; -ee

Example Sentences

An tell em to remember thee    Upon t’next Feoffee Day!” p. 64I says—I sallant get a meg,    I’m getting parish pay.

From Project Gutenberg

The common form was a grant “to the feoffee and the heirs of his body,” by which limitation it was sought to prevent alienation from the lineage of the first purchaser.

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They deal almost exclusively with the case of a feoffment made by the lord to a villain and his heirs, and give the feoffee an action only on the ground of implied manumission.

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Feoffee′, the person invested with the fief; Feoff′er, Feoff′or, he who grants the fief; Feoff′ment, the gift of a fief or feoff.

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For instance, "Also, if feoffment be made upon such condition, that if the feoffor pay to the feofee at a certain day, etc., 800s. forty pounds of money, that then the feoffor may reenter, etc., in this case the feoffee is called tenant in mortgage, … and if he doth not pay, then the land which he puts in pledge upon condition for the payment of the money is gone from him for ever, and so dead as to the tenant, etc."

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