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If feoffees, who possess an estate only during the life of a son, where divers remainders are limited over, make a feoffment in fee to him, by the feoffment, all the future remainders are destroyed.

From The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

Anyone serving the King in war may alienate his lands for the performance of his will, and if he dies, his feoffees or executors shall have the wardship of his heir and land.

From Our Legal Heritage by Reilly, S. A.

The records of the proceedings if the feoffees of his time consist only of the collector's yearly accounts of monies received and expended, and do not show the appointments of the feoffees.

From Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850 by Various

Rylands' "Records of Rowington" supply many details, as, for instance: "In 1576, a lease by feoffees, among whom was Thomas Shakespeare, was granted Richard Shakespeare of Rowington, weaver of the 'Tyinges.'"

From Shakespeare's Family by Stopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael)

The commissioners sat at Ely, on the 25th of January, 1641, and at Cambridge on the 3rd of March in the same year, when several of the feoffees with other persons were examined.

From Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850 by Various