Definition of Feoffs

1. Noun. (plural of feoff) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Feoffs

1. feoff [v] - See also: feoff

Lexicographical Neighbors of Feoffs

feodaries
feodary
feodatory
feods
feoff
feoffed
feoffee
feoffees
feoffer
feoffers
feoffing
feoffment
feoffments
feoffor
feoffors
feoffs (current term)
feorm-fultum
feormfultum
feprazone
fer
fer-de-lance
fer-de-lances
feracious
feracities
feracity
ferae
ferae naturae
feral
feral cat
feral child

Literary usage of Feoffs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the commissioners by Schools inquiry commission, Great Britain Schools Inquiry Commission (1868)
"Itm, the feoffs for the tyme beyng, shall make no man leese or astate of the said ... tho two feoffs, and the Highe Scale Maister, for the tyme beyng, ..."

2. Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (1893)
"It I will that my saide feoffs make A state in fee of my lands in ... And I will the feoffs suffer hym to take the ... be made by my said feoffs to xvj ..."

3. Proceedings by Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (1893)
"It I will that my saide feoffs make A state in fee of my lands in ... be made by my said feoffs to xvj ..."

4. Sociology Based Upon Ethnography by Charles Létourneau, Henry Merivale Trollope, Charles Jean Marie Letourneau (1893)
"In Japan the feoffs are hereditary, but in case of disinheritance they revert to the sovereign. This society, so accurately divided, in which every member ..."

5. A General History of the Lives, Trials, and Executions of All the Royal and by Delahay Gordon (1760)
"... but he declined it with fome feoffs, as knowing that the king hated the offices of ... their offices with vulgar and bafe feoffs, vain and frivolous ..."

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