In old English law. A feoffee; one to whom a fee is given or a feoffment made. … [Read more...] about FEOFFATUS
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In old English law. A weekday; a holiday; a day on which process could not be served; a fair; a ferry. Cowell Du Cange; Spelman. … [Read more...] about FERIA
FEOFFEE
He to whom a fee is conveyed. Litt 5 1; 2 Bl. Comm. 20. Feoffee to uses. A person to whom land was conveyed for the use of a third party. The latter was called "cestui que use." … [Read more...] about FEOFFEE
FERIAE
In Roman law. Holidays; generally speaking, days or seasons during which free born Romans suspended their political transactions and their lawsuits, and during which slaves enjoyed a cessation from labor, all ferics were thus dies nefasti. All fericB were divided into two classes,"feria publicw" and "ferice privatas," The latter were only observed by single families or … [Read more...] about FERIAE
FEOFFMENT
The gift of any corporeal hereditament to another, (2 Bl. Comm. 310), operating by transmutation of possession, and requiring, as essential to its completion, that the seisen be passed, (Watk. Conv. 183), which might be accomplished either by investiture or by livery of seisin. Also the deel or conveyance by which such corporeal hereditament is passed. A feoffment originally … [Read more...] about FEOFFMENT