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Feoffee is a trustee who holds a fief (or "fee"), that is to say an estate in land , for the use of a beneficial owner. as a
feoffee to
Kaynak: FeoffeeThe earliest appearance of cestui que in the medieval period was the
feoffee to uses, which like the Salman, held on account of another.
Kaynak: Cestui queeffected generally on the site of the land in a symbolic ceremony of transfer from the feoffor to the
feoffee in the presence of witnesses.
Kaynak: FeoffmentIn his home county of Sussex he maintained a substantial legal practice, serving as
feoffee , arbitrator, justice and commissioner, and
Kaynak: John Ernley(archaically known, in the context of land, as the
feoffee to uses), who holds that trust property (or trust corpus) for the benefit of
Kaynak: Trust lawThus, on the death of the
feoffee to uses the use could be enforced against the
feoffee's heir to whom the legal fee simple estate had
Kaynak: Use (law)made her one of the principal landowners in Essex , where she exercised lordship, acting as arbitrator and
feoffee in property transactions.
Kaynak: Joan de Bohun, Countess of HerefordThe common form was a grant "to the
feoffee and the heirs of his body," by which limitation it was sought to prevent 'alienation from the
Kaynak: De donis conditionalibusBefore 1549, Thomas Bishopp senior had acted as
feoffee to Elizabeth. Elizabeth was a recusant and her father Sir Edward Belknap was
Kaynak: Thomas Bishopp, 1st BaronetHe was commissioner for trade from 1656 to 1657, commissioner for charitable uses at Peterborough in 1656 and
feoffee for town lands from
Kaynak: Francis St John