feoffee (fefe)

[ He had convayed secretly all his landes to feoffees of trust. Spenser , State of Ireland. Making himself rich by being made a feoffee in trust to deceased brethren. B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, v. 2. Feoffee to uses, at common law, one to whom land is conveyed to the use of another. See use. feoffer, feoffor (fef'er, -or), n. [OF. feoffor, feouffour, ML. feoff at or: see feoff, v.] One who enfeoffs, or grants a fee.