noun
- A person who receives a fief or fee; one to whom a fief is granted.
Usage: archaic; legal/historical; primarily used in feudal law and medieval English property law
Examples
- The feoffee held the land in exchange for military service to the lord.
- In medieval England, a feoffee received rights to cultivate the granted estate.
- The contract specified the duties and privileges of the feoffee.
- Upon the feoffor's death, the feoffee's heirs could inherit the fief under certain conditions.