Feoffare
Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
To bestow a fee. 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 91.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
To bestow a fee. 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law 91.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
feofare, 1 1.
In old English law. To enfeoff; to give or bestow a fee. Feoffavi: I have enfeoffed.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
‘To enfeoff; to bestow a fee. The bestower was called “feoffator,” and the grantee or feoffee, “feaffatus.”
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
I. To enfeoff. Feoffamentum: a tus: a feoffee. Feoffator: a feoffor. Feoifavit
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
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.