The third person singular present tense of feoff; when someone transfers property or land to another person.
From feoff (to transfer property) + -s (third person singular marker). Feoff comes from Old French with Germanic roots in property and possession.
When a medieval document says 'John feoffs the land to his son,' it's a snapshot of wealth and power being passed down through generations in a very formal, witnessed way.
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