Crossword clues for feoffee
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Feoffee \Feof*fee"\ (?; 277), n. [OF. feoff['e].] (Law) The person to whom a feoffment is made; the person enfeoffed.
Wiktionary
n. A vassal holding a fief.
Wikipedia
A feoffee is a trustee who holds a fief (or "fee"), that is to say an estate in land, for the use of a beneficial owner. The term is more fully stated as a feoffee to uses of the beneficial owner. The use of such trustees developed towards the end of the era of feudalism in the middle ages and became obsolete with the formal ending of that social and economic system in 1660. Indeed the development of feoffees to uses may have hastened the end of the feudal system, since their operation circumvented vital feudal fiscal mechanisms.
Usage examples of "feoffee".
She stared and waited and it was clear that she had no intention of enlightening me as to what a Feoffee actually was.
Evidently Lord Marrick is becoming the top Feoffee, whatever that involves, and wants to arrange some events to celebrate it.
Phinn, Lord Marrick, the Vice-Chairman of the Education Committee, is to take up the office of Greave and Chief Lord of the Feoffees in the New Year.
The Feoffees served a very important function in Tudor and Stuart times.
First, the Feoffees are part of our rich, cultural heritage, which is something we should be proud of and cherish.
Furthermore, the Feoffees still help the poor and afflicted, particularly orphans and deprived children.
Oh, and Harold, I do hope the Feoffees have ensured that the roads are in good repair, that Hawksrill Bridge is still standing and there are not too many crowding around the pillories or in the stocks.
Greave of the Feoffees, a stocky man in a loud-checked tweed suit with a face as soft and brown and wrinkled as an over-ripe russet apple.
Whenever I mention the word Feoffees to people, they look at me as if I am not quite right in the head.
The Feoffees, as you know, have existed for five hundred years, helping the unfortunate, supporting the sick, giving burs aries and scholarships to deserving causes and I want to have a really good bash up here at Manston Hall to celebrate our achievements.
I spent the day working on the plans for those events for which I was responsible at the Feoffees Pageant which was to be held at Manston Hall at the end of May.
Savage about the Feoffees Pageant had been undertaken by notes and memoranda.
It was the Saturday of the Feoffees Pageant and the weather was perfect, the sky a cloudless blue and it was warm for the end of May.
Lord Marrick, as Greave and Chief Lord of the Feoffees, dressed in a long scarlet gown and heavy gold chain, followed the Mace Bearer and led a line of largely elderly men in dark suits and bowler hats.
Gore thanking you and your colleagues for all the help with the Feoffees Pageant.