| 单词 | feoffee to uses |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfeoffee to uses a. (More fully feoffee in or of trust.) A trustee invested with a freehold estate in land. Now chiefly applied in plural to certain boards of elected or nominated trustees holding land for charitable or other public purposes. Also in feoffee to uses: see feoff v. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun] > putting property into trust > a trustee or body of trustees > specific feoffee in or of trust1411 bailee1613 1275 Stat. Westm. i. 3 Edw. I c. 48 Et si lenfaunt seit aloingne ou destourbe par le gardein ou par le feoffe ou par autre par quei il ne puisse sasise suire.] 1411 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 19 Tenementes.. stondynge in feffies handes. 1491 Act 7 Hen. VII c. 2 §5 They and their feoffes to the use of every of theym. 1593 J. Norden Speculum Brit.: Middlesex i. 22 The schole is in the disposition of sixe governors or feffees. a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 19 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Desmond..conveyed secretly all his lands to Feoffees of trust. 1631 T. Powell Tom of All Trades 145 In the gift of the Executor, Heire, or Feofee of such Donor. 1643 D. Digges Unlawfulnesse Subj. ii. 21 As children who have lost a father, and whose fortunes by his care are left to Feoffees in trust. 1655 T. Gouge Narr. Life Dr. Gouge in W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes sig. b2v He was chosen a Trustee, or Feofy. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1680 (1955) IV. 202 A meeting of the Foefees for the Poore of our parish. 1735 H. Greswold Let. 30 Aug. in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1831) I. 61 It takeing up some time to informe the feoffees [of the school] of the contents thereof. 1861 W. S. Perry Hist. Church Eng. I. xii. 417 The attempt which the Puritans were..making to strengthen their party, by means of a Corporation of Feoffees to buy up impropriations. < as lemmas |
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