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单词 feoffee
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Definition of feoffee in English:

feoffee

noun fɛˈfiːfiːˈfiː
  • 1A trustee invested with a freehold estate to hold in possession for a purpose, typically a charitable one.

    (尤指为慈善目的的)不动产受托人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The feoffees' secretary, Campbell Higgins, said the market operator still owed an unspecified amount of money.
    • He became a legal advisor to Lord FitzWalter and later to his son, as well as a feoffee of the FitzWalter estates; he similarly served the Earl of Oxford, who had landed and commercial interests in Maldon.
    1. 1.1historical (in feudal law) a person to whom a grant of freehold property is made.
      〈史〉(封建法律中的)采邑承受人
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Sunday market was renting land owned by the feoffees, an ancient feudal society with land rights.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French feoffe 'enfeoffed', past participle of feoffer, variant of Old French fieffer (see feoffment).

Definition of feoffee in US English:

feoffee

noun
  • 1A trustee invested with a freehold estate to hold in possession for a purpose.

    (尤指为慈善目的的)不动产受托人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He became a legal advisor to Lord FitzWalter and later to his son, as well as a feoffee of the FitzWalter estates; he similarly served the Earl of Oxford, who had landed and commercial interests in Maldon.
    • The feoffees' secretary, Campbell Higgins, said the market operator still owed an unspecified amount of money.
    1. 1.1historical (in feudal law) a person to whom a grant of freehold property is made.
      〈史〉(封建法律中的)采邑承受人
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Sunday market was renting land owned by the feoffees, an ancient feudal society with land rights.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French feoffe ‘enfeoffed’, past participle of feoffer, variant of Old French fieffer (see feoffment).

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