Meaning of cofeoffee | Babel Free

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A joint feoffee; one of a group of individuals jointly holding a fief.

historical

Examples

“[…] that then ſuch and ſo many of the ſaid twelue Cofeoffees aforenamed, which ſhal ſo depart away forth of the ſaid towne of C. and inhabite ⁊ dwell in any other place, ſhall not […] take, receiue, or diſpoſe, any of the rents, iſſues, or profits of the ſaid tenements ⁊ premiſſes: […]”

“But where the Lands of any Cofeoffee are omitted, there ſuch Perſon, whoſe Lands are extended, muſt bring his Audita Qeurela againſt the Conuſee, and ſuch Cofeoffee; […]”

“The other acts of this reign that are at all of a juridical nature, are the following: one was to declare that wherever the king was co-feoffee of lands to the use of the feoffer, the land should be in the co-feoffees; which was to prevent the conclusion of law that would give, in such case, the whole to the kind: another required a certain qualification of property in jurors who served in the sherrif's tourn.”

“He [John Broke] last appears as an attorney in 1400, though afterwards, for nearly ten years, he was frequently named as cofeoffee in Hartfield hundred.”

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