Feoffare
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Feofare.
L. Lat. [from Sax. feoh, a fee.] In old English law. To enfeoff; to give or bestow a fee; (feodum dare.) Bract. fol.
17 b, 29 b, 44 b.
Stat. Marlbr. c.
6.
Et si taliter feoffatus aliquem ulterius inde feoffaverit, tenet feoffamentum; and if one so enfeoffed, enfeoff another thereof over, the feoffment holds. Bract. fol.
17 b.
Si feoffavero A. et A. B. &c.; if I enfeoff A., and A., B. &c. Id. fol.
81.
Feoffavi; I have enfeoffed. This word, according to Mr. Reeves, was not employed in deeds of feoffment till the reign of Richard II.
1 Reeves' Hist. E. Law, 91.
Feoffare points even more plainly than feodum to the primitive word feoh as its origin; feofare (Spelman's mode of writing it) being scarcely distinguishable in sound from feohare, which may have been its first form as a verb.