- Feoffer
- Feofor \Feo"for\, Feoffer \Feof"fer\, n. [OF. feoour.] (Law) One who enfeoffs or grants a fee. [1913 Webster]
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Feoffer
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feoffer — noun see feoffor … New Collegiate Dictionary
feoffer — feoff·er also feof·for (fĕfʹər, fēʹfər) n. Law One who grants a feoffment. * * * … Universalium
feoffer — feoff·er || fefÉ™(r) n. one who gives a fief to another, one who gives a piece of land to another (during the Middle Ages) … English contemporary dictionary
feoffer — feoff·er … English syllables
feoffer — noun see feoffor … Useful english dictionary
co-feoffer — … Useful english dictionary
feoff — noun /fif/ (say feef) 1. a fee (def. 4) or estate in land held of a feudal lord; a tenure of land subject to feudal obligations. 2. a territory held in fee. –verb (t) /fɛf/ (say fef), /fif/ (say feef) 3. to invest with a feoff; enfeoff. {Middle… …
common-law mortgage — A feoffment on the condition that the feoffer might re enter if he performed the condition of paying a certain sum of money on a certain date to the feoffee, the transaction also being known as dead pledge, because, upon nonperformance of the… … Ballentine's law dictionary
feoff — [fef, fēf] vt. [Early ME feoffen < Anglo Fr feoffer < OFr fieuffer, fieffer < fieu, fief: see FEE] Historical ENFEOFF n. var. of FIEF feoffment n. feoffor n. feoffer … English World dictionary
feof|for — «FEHF uhr, FEE fuhr», noun. = feoffer. (Cf. ↑feoffer) … Useful english dictionary
