feoff

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fif/, /fɛf/

Noun

feoff (plural feoffs)

  1. (law) A fief.

Verb

feoff (third-person singular simple present feoffs, present participle feoffing, simple past and past participle feoffed)

  1. (law) To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.

Derived terms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for feoff in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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