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Definition of Feoffs
1. feoff [v] - See also: feoff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feoffs
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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