_ 'The action of
investing
a person with a fief or fee.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
3. 227.
=Fellow=, _n._ Phr. _good fellow_: Of a woman. A term of familiar
address. 5. 1. 5.
=Feoffee=, _n._ The person to whom a freehold estate in land is
conveyed by a feoffment. 3. 5. 60.
=Feoffment=, _n.
_ 'The action of
investing
a person with a fief or fee.
In technical language applied esp. to the particular mode of conveyance
(originally the only one used, but now almost obsolete) in which a
person is invested in a freehold estate in lands by livery of seisin
(at common law generally, but not necessarily, evidenced by a deed,
which, however, is not required by statute).' _NED._ 4. 5. 15; 4. 7. 7.
Phr. _Deed of Feoffment_: 'The instrument or deed by which corporeal
hereditaments are conveyed.' _NED._ 4. 6. 44.
