cofeoffee

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Etymology

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From Middle English cofeffe, cofeoffe, confeoffe, equivalent to co- +‎ feoffee.

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cofeoffee (plural cofeoffees)

  1. (law, historical) A joint feoffee; one of a group of individuals jointly holding a fief.
    • 1615, William West, The First Part of Simboleography. [], London: [] Companie of Stationers, page 249:
      [] 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: []
    • a. 1726, Lord Chief Baron Gilbert [i.e., Jeffrey Gilbert], The Law of Executions. [], London: [] W. Owen [], published 1763, page 45:
      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; []
    • 1869, [John Reeves], chapter XXIV, in W[illiam] [Francis] Finlason, editor, Reeves' History of the English Law, [], Vol. III. From the Reign of Edward IV to the Reign of Elizabeth, London: Reeves & Turner [], page 16:
      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.
    • 1974, Eleanor Searle, Lordship and Community: Battle Abbey and Its Banlieu, 1066-1538, Toronto, O.N.: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, →ISBN, page 422:
      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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