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Feoffee vs Feoffer - What's the difference?

feoffee | feoffer |

As nouns the difference between feoffee and feoffer

is that feoffee is a vassal holding a fief while feoffer is (legal) one who enfeoffs or grants a fee.

feoffee

English

(wikipedia feoffee)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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." — Rabbit at Rest , John Updike

    • Related terms

    * enfeoff * feoff * feoffment * fief

    feoffer

    English

    Alternative forms

    * feofor * feoffor

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (legal) One who enfeoffs or grants a fee.