verb
- to invest with a fief or fee; to give a freehold estate in land to someone
Usage: archaic; legal/historical; third person singular present tense of 'feoff'
Examples
- The lord feoffs his son with the family estate.
- In medieval times, a king feoffs a knight with land in exchange for service.
- The deed feoffs the heir with full ownership of the property.
- He feoffs his daughter with a valuable manor house.