feoffee
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of feoffee
1275–1325; Middle English feoffe < Anglo-French, past participle of feoffer to feoff; see -ee
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The appointment of Oliver Cromwell as a feoffee does not appear in any of the documents now remaining with the governors of the charity.
From Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850 by Various
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.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
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.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
Parson's charity, Oliver Cromwell as a feoffee of, 465.
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.
From Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850 by Various
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