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▪ I. feoff
var. form of fief n.
▪ II. feoff, v.|fɛf|
Forms: 3 feoffen, 3–7 feff, 6–7 feoffe, (feofe, feoffee), 4–7 feoff, (9 dial. feft). pa. tense and pa. pple. feoffed; also 5–6 feft(e, 7 feoft. See also fief v.
[Early ME. feoffen, ad. AF. feoffer, OF. fieuffer, fieffer, f. fieu, fief: see fee n.2, fief n.]
1. Law. trans. To put in legal possession (properly confined to freehold interests in corporeal hereditaments; formerly sometimes inaccurately used of leasehold); = enfeoff v. 1. ? Obs.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 463/33 To feoffen heore children þare-wiz echon. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 7585 Men of religion of normandie..He feffede here mid londes. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 35 Þe abbey of Rumeye he feffed richely With rentes. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Justina 648 Þe bischope gert þane a nunry make & feffit for Justinis sake. c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 454 Every script and bond, By which that sche was feoffed in his lond. 1415E.E. Wills (1882) 24 The londes rentes that ȝe bun feoffed In. c1425Wyntoun Cron. v. x. 347 He fefte þe kyrk..Wytht gret and fayre and fre Franchys. c1430How Wise Mon tauȝt Son 96 in Babees Bk. (1868) 51 For ritchesse take hir neuere þe more Þouȝ sche wolde þee boþe feffe & ceese. 1520Caxton's Chron. Eng. v. 49 b/2 Whan Arthur had thus his knyghtes feoffed. 1573Tusser Husb. cxiii. (1878) 213 Gentrie standes, not all by landes, Nor all so feft. 1620Bp. Hall Hon. Mar. Clergie ii. §8 Anastatius..feoffed in some Temporalties which hee would rather die than not leave to his issue.
b. to feoff (one person) to the use of (another): to invest with the legal estate, subject to an obligation to allow the use to (the other person).
Until 1535 this proceeding was very commonly resorted to to evade the burdens incident to ownership of land. The Statute of Uses passed in that year provided that in all cases of feoffment to uses the cestui que use should have the legal estate.
1491Act 7 Hen. VII, c. 20 §7 Persones feoffed or seased to thuse of theym.
†c. fig. Obs.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 239 Men gyf God þe lest, þe feffe him with a ferþing. c1350Will. Palerne 193 Til alle his felawes were ferst feffed to here paie. c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. iii. 38 Þo feffedest þou fortune wiþ glosynge wordes. c1450Crt. of Love 932 Nay God forbid to feffe you so with grace. c1460Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 115 Ye two are welle feft, sam in a stede. a1656Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 154 That we may be feoffed in that blessed inheritance.
d. † In wider sense: To present (a person) with anything (obs.). Also dial. (see quot. 1855).
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. ii. 146 And feffe false-witnes with floreines ynowe. c1450Merlin 374 The kynge hym feffed with his right glove. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Fefted, legally secured with a maintenance. ‘He fefted his wife on so much a year.’
†2. To confer (a heritable possession) upon. Chiefly fig. Obs.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxxiii. 7 God feoffeth abundance of all good thinges upon them. 1592Warner Alb. Eng. vii. xxxv. (1612) 169 Those Stiles..were strange, but thay Did feofe them on the base-borne Muffe. 1612–5Bp. Hall Contempl., O.T. x. vi, He makes his son his priest, and feoffees that sinne upon his sonne which he received from his mother. 1649― Cases Consc. iii. i. (1654) 169 Feoffing a supernaturall vertue upon drugges. |