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feoffor, feoffer Law.|ˈfɛfər|
Forms: 5 feffer, (6 -or), -our(e, fefowre, 6 feofer, -ffour, 7 -ffeer, 5– feoffor, 6– feoffer.
[ad. AF. feoffour, f. feoffer feoff v.]
1. One who makes a feoffment to another. Rarely Hist. in feudal sense: One who invests another with a fief.
1440Promp. Parv. 153 Fefowre, feofatus. 1483Act 1 Rich. III, c. 1 The Sellers, Feoffors, Donors, or Granters. 1594West 2nd Pt. Symbol, Chancerie §37 The feoffor..may reenter and have hys land again. 1613Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 133 A good Liuery of seisin if the other enter in the feoffors life time. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. ii. xx. 311 Unless the feoffor..hath given it a longer continuance. 1865Nichols Britton II. 6 The first feoffor or the lord of the most ancient fee has a better right. 1888Eng. Hist. Rev. III. 41 Can a feoffer dispose of a fief without the written consent of his feodary?
¶2. Formerly often misused for feoffee.
1426E.E. Wills (1882) 71, I praye my feffours þat þay wolde enfeffe Philippe Dene on .vj. marces of rente. 1535J. Atwell in Wells Wills (1890) 82 My feoffers of all my lands in Bromfelde. 1603H. Crosse Vertues Commw. (1878) 91 Hee is a bayliffe, steward, and Feoffer in trust. |