feoffee

Feoffee, or more correctly within this context feoffee to uses, is a historical term relating to the law of trusts and equity, referring to the owner of a legal title of a property when he is not the equitable owner. Feoffees essentially had their titles stripped by the Statute of Uses 1535, whereby the legal title to the property being held by the feoffee was transferred to their cestui que use, however, the term is still in use today for the governors of Chetham's Library in Manchester.^[1]

The modern equivalent of a feoffee to uses is the trustee, one who holds a legal and managerial ownership in trust for the enjoyment of the beneficiary.

See also

• Fee
• Fee simple
• Feu
• Legal history
• Tenure
• Fiefdom

References

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