Feoffee
//fɛfˈiː// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A vassal holding a fief.
"[…] this quiz with all the strange old terms in it, curtilage and messuage and socage and fee simple and fee tail and feoffee and copyhold and customary freehold and mortmain and devises and lex loci rei sitae."
Example
More examples"[…] this quiz with all the strange old terms in it, curtilage and messuage and socage and fee simple and fee tail and feoffee and copyhold and customary freehold and mortmain and devises and lex loci rei sitae."
Etymology
From feoff + -ee (“(object)”).
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