feoffment

Variant of feoff

feoff definition

feoff (fef, fēf)

transitive verb

enfeoff

Etymology: Early ME feoffen < Anglo-Fr feoffer < OFr fieuffer, fieffer < fieu, fief: see fee

noun

fief

Related Forms:

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