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feoff

NOUN
  1. a piece of land held under the feudal system

How To Use feoff In A Sentence

  • But in a few months he issued an edict making this enfeoffment. The History of the Former Han Dynasty
  • Lord paramount over the empire of mind as well as matter, he alone is seized, in fee simple right, of the whole domain: provinces of which men hold, as fiefs, by vassal tenure, subject to reversion and enfeoffment to another. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
  • Dowager, nor shall any member of the clans of the imperial consorts be appointed regents [during the minority of young emperors], nor shall they be given enfeoffment without due merit. Empresses and Consorts
  • To mock and \cir and feoff At holy things or holy men. The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
  • Cestui que (also cestuy que) (English pronunciation: /ˈsɛstwi keɪ/) is a shortened version of cestui a que use le feoffment fuit fait, literally, “The person for whose use the feoffment was made.” The Volokh Conspiracy » The influence of French words in English legal terminology
  • He enfeoffed his son-in-law with a large estate in Scotland
  • Remainder contingent is dellroyed by feoff - ment and hne, -- 630 Reports of Sir George Croke, knight. Formerly one of the justices of the courts of Kings-bench, and common-pleas, of such select cases as were adjudged in the said courts [1582-1641]
  • Cromwell (Oliver), as a feoffee of Parson's Charity, Ely, 465. Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 1, November, 1849-May, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
  • Walter de bath held £10 of land there by enfeoffment of Ralph de Valletorta.
  • Lord of the town and province, a feoff of the Mexican Emperor Montezuma South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure
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