Feoffee

Word FEOFFEE
Character 7
Hyphenation feof fee
Pronunciations /fiːˈfiː/

Definitions and meanings of "Feoffee"

What do we mean by feoffee?

One to whom a feoffment is granted. noun

A person who is enfeoffed— that is, invested with a fee. noun

The person to whom a feoffment is made; the person enfeoffed. noun

A vassal holding a fief. noun

A vassal holding a fief.

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The word "feoffee" in example sentences

John Hand was a feoffee for many years, and during his time executed, as was usual, the office of collector or treasurer. ❋ Various (N/A)

Firstly, because I have already accepted the picture which you regarded as mine or its equivalent, in place of the one that was mine and is now yours; and, secondly, because my friend the feoffee has already bought it, the one that was yours and is now mine, or rather his (you know what I mean, don't you?), and I haven't the heart to ask him to return it. ❋ Various (N/A)

Buckley's Hospital (a fifteenth-century foundation here), and whatever a feoffee may be he is not the kind of man to toy with in ❋ Various (N/A)

There is in Ely, where Cromwell for some years resided, an extensive charity known as Parson's Charity, of which he was a feoffee or governor. ❋ Various (N/A)

Cromwell (Oliver), as a feoffee of Parson's Charity, Ely, 465. ❋ Various (N/A)

The appointment of Oliver Cromwell as a feoffee does not appear in any of the documents now remaining with the governors of the charity. ❋ Various (N/A)

Parson's charity, Oliver Cromwell as a feoffee of, 465. ❋ Various (N/A)

Of land directly acquired from the king, the person to whom the grant or feoffment was made, the feoffee, held as tenant in capite of the Crown. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

If the tenant in capite made a feoffment, he became immediate lord of his feoffee, and as to the king a mediate lord. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

A statute of 1290 permits any freeman to part with his land, the feoffee to hold of the same lord and by the same services as his feoffor held. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The mode of doing this was by a feoffment to the use of the feoffor's last will, and the feoffee being considered as seized of the use, not of the land, could devise it. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The gate-house contained a sitting-room and three bedrooms (one hardly bigger than a box-cupboard); but a building adjoined it which had been the old Franciscans 'refectory, though now it was divided by common planking into two floors, the lower serving for a feoffee office, while the upper was supposed to be a muniment-room, in charge of the feoffees' clerk. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

Only those who were privies in estate with the original feoffee to uses, were bound by the use. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1888)

There are, at least, a score of similar instances: the ancestral sacrifices seem to refer rather to posterity, whilst those to gods of the land and grain appear more connected with rights as feoffee. ❋ Edward Harper Parker (1887)

[FN#347] Nazarßnah prop. = the gift (or gifts) offered at visits by a Moslem noble or feoffee in India to his feudal superior; and the Kalichah of Hind·, Malabar, Goa and the Blue Mountains (p. 197). ❋ Anonymous (1855)

I. A., the feoffor, reserved to himself no estate or reversion in the land, but the seignory only, with the rent and services, by virtue of which he might again become entitled to the land by escheat, as for want of heirs of the feoffee, or by forfeiture, as for felony. ❋ Various (1852)

From the Lord Jesus Christ, as Mediator, and the great feoffee in trust for the conveying and securing of these benefits. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The Father took such a complacency and had such a confidence in him that he constituted him the great feoffee in trust for mankind. ❋ Unknown (1721)

He was in that year feoffee collector for twelve poor alms-people living in Clement-Dane's Church-Yard; whose pensions I in his absence paid weekly, to his and the parish's great satisfaction. ❋ William Lilly (1641)

But if Whiteacre was then held by a dis - seisor, so as that the feoffee could not enter, the entry upon Blackacre does not inure to both. ❋ Unknown (1796)

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