"[...] 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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Feoffee — or more correctly within this context feoffee to uses , is a historical term relating to the law of trusts and equity, referring to the owner of a legal title of a property when he is not the equitable owner. Feoffees essentially had their title … Wikipedia
feoffee — feoff·ee /fe fē, fē fē/ n: a person to whom a feoffment is made Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. feoffee I … Law dictionary
Feoffee — Feof*fee (?; 277), n. [OF. feoff[ e].] (Law) The person to whom a feoffment is made; the person enfeoffed. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
feoffee — [fef ē′, fēf ē′] n. [ME feoffe < Anglo Fr feoffé, pp. of feoffer] a person granted a fief … English World dictionary
feoffee — noun Date: 15th century one to whom a feoffment is made … New Collegiate Dictionary
feoffee — feoffeeship, n. /fef ee, fee fee /, n. a person invested with a fief. [1275 1325; ME feoffe < AF, ptp. of feoffer to FEOFF; see EE] * * * … Universalium
feoffee — feoff·ee || fe fÉªË n. one who receives a fief, one who receives a piece of land (during the Middle Ages) … English contemporary dictionary
feoffee — [fɛ fi:, fi: ] noun 1》 a trustee invested with a freehold estate to hold in possession for a charitable purpose. 2》 (in feudal law) a person to whom a feoffment is made … English new terms dictionary
Feoffee — ♦ One to whom land is granted. In the language of medieval law, a grant of land was an enfeoffment meaning to endow with a fief or knight s fee. (Waugh, Scott. England in the Reign of Edward III, 238) Related terms: Fief, Fief de Haubert, Fief… … Medieval glossary
feoffee — feoff·ee … English syllables
