Feoffee To Uses
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A person to whom land was conveyed for the use of a third party. One holding the same position with swers to the haeres fiduciarius of the Roman law.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A person to whom (before the statute of uses) land was conveyed "for the use" of a third person. He held the nominal or legal title, while the third person, called the "cestui que use," was entitled to the beneficial enjoyment of the estate.
Defined under Use in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A person to whom land was conveyed for the use of a third party. The latter was called “cesiut que use.”
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
He in whom the legal estate beneficial owner being the cestui que use.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
The person to whom a feoffment was made, upon the trust Or confidence that be should hold the land to the use of some third person, or of the feolBFor himself. Cruise Dig, tit. xi, ch. 2.