1. A person who grants a fief or fee; one who invests another with a freehold estate in land.
Usage: archaic; legal history; chiefly British

1. To invest with a fief or fee; to give possession of a freehold estate in land to another person.
Usage: archaic; legal history; chiefly British

Examples

• The feoffer transferred the manor to his son through a formal ceremony of livery of seisin.
• In medieval England, a feoffer would convey land by placing the feoffee in actual possession.
• The feoffer's role was to ensure the legal transfer of the estate was properly executed.
• To feoffer someone with land required witnesses and symbolic acts of delivery.
• The document named the feoffer as the original owner of the property.