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feoffee

noun
/fɛfˈiː/

Etymology

From feoff + -ee (“(object)”).

  1. derived from feoffer
  2. suffixed as feoffee — “feoff + ee”

Definitions

  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.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA