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Webster 1913 Edition


Feoff

Feoff

(?; 277)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Feoffed
(#)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
.
Feoffing
.]
[OE.
feffen
, OF.
feffer
,
fieffer
, F.
fieffer
, fr.
fief
fief; cf. LL.
feoffare
,
fefare
. See
Fief
.]
(Law)
To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.

Feoff

,
Noun.
(Law)
A fief. See
Fief
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Feoff

FEOFF

,
Verb.
T.
feff.
To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant to one any corporeal hereditament. The compound infeoff is more generally used.

FEOFF

, a fief. [See Fief.]

Definition 2024


feoff

feoff

English

Noun

feoff (plural feoffs)

  1. (law) A fief.

Verb

feoff (third-person singular simple present feoffs, present participle feoffing, simple past and past participle feoffed)

  1. (law) To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.

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