feoffee
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of feoffee
1275–1325; Middle English feoffe < Anglo-French, past participle of feoffer to feoff; see -ee
Example Sentences
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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
Livery in law, in order to pass the estate, had to be perfected by entry by the feoffee during the joint lives of himself and the feoffor.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
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
Livery in law was made not on but in sight of this land, the feoffor saying to the feoffee, “I give you that land; enter and take possession.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
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.
From Ancient China Simplified by Parker, Edward Harper
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