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feoffees

feoffees is the plural of feoffee.

Meaning of feoffee

Noun

feoffee (plural feoffees)

  1. A vassal holding a fief.
    • […] this quiz with all the strange old terms in it, curtilage and messuage and socage and fee simple and fee tail and feoffee and copyhold and customary freehold and mortmain and devises and lex loci rei sitae.1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest

Questions about feoffees

What is feoffees the plural of?
Feoffees is the plural of feoffee.

Words near feoffees in the dictionary

  1. Feodosiya
  2. feods
  3. feoff
  4. feoffed
  5. feoffee
  6. feoffees
  7. feoffeeship
  8. feoffeeships
  9. feoffer
  10. feoffers
  11. feoffing

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