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feoff

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Noun
feoff - a piece of land held under the feudal system
		fief
		acres, landed estate, demesne, estate, land extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"

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Wiktionary

feoff (Noun)
A fief.
feoff (Verb)
To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

feoff (v. t.)
To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.
feoff (n.)
A fief. See Fief.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

feoff
fef, n. a fief.—v.t. to grant possession of a fief or property in land.—ns. Feoffee′, the person invested with the fief; Feoff′er, Feoff′or, he who grants the fief; Feoff′ment, the gift of a fief or feoff. [O. Fr. feoffer or fiefer—O. Fr. fief. See Fee.]

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feoff, noun, singular of feoffs.

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