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- noun Plural form of
feoffee .
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Examples
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If feoffees, who possess an estate only during the life of a son, where divers remainders are limited over, make a feoffment in fee to him, by the feoffment, all the future remainders are destroyed.
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Remark, likewise, gentlemen, you gouty feoffees, in this main point worthy of your observation, how by these means Pantagruel of one angel made two, which was a contingency opposite to the counsel of Charlemagne, who made two devils of one when he transplanted the
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Remark, likewise, gentlemen, you gouty feoffees, in this main point worthy of your observation, how by these means Pantagruel of one angel made two, which was a contingency opposite to the counsel of Charlemagne, who made two devils of one when he transplanted the
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Ely, against the feoffees of Parson's Charity, and a commission for charitable uses was issued.
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The commissioners sat at Ely, on the 25th of January, 1641, and at Cambridge on the 3rd of March in the same year, when several of the feoffees with other persons were examined.
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Gifts and bequests were made to the bridge, and the funds belonging to it became so large, and the business connected with them so important, that in 1758 a hall was built for the use of the feoffees, and decorated with the royal arms and the arms of the bridge.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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Cranford, two of the feoffees, is the following statement: --
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The office was usually taken by the feoffees in turn then, as at the present time; but Cromwell most probably was called to a higher sphere of action before his turn arrived.
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An original summons to the feoffees, signed by the commissioners, is preserved.
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The records of the proceedings if the feoffees of his time consist only of the collector's yearly accounts of monies received and expended, and do not show the appointments of the feoffees.
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