feoffee

[fef-ee, fee-fee]

noun

a person invested with a fief.

Origin of feoffee

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

Related formsfeoff·ee·ship, noun

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for feoffee

Historical Examples of feoffee

John Hand was a feoffee for many years, and during his time executed, as was usual, the office of collector or treasurer.
Notes & Queries No. 29, Saturday, May 18, 1850
Various
Except in the cases, comparatively rare before the statute Quia Emptores, in which the feoffee is to hold of the feoffors lord.
Domesday Book and Beyond
Frederic William Maitland
After the death of the feoffee the grant reverted to the State; and the governor thereupon disposed of it anew.
The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes
Toms de Comyn

British Dictionary definitions for feoffee

feoffee

noun

(in feudal society) a vassal granted a fief by his lord

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012