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 became had their titles stripped by the Statue of Uses 1535, whereby the legal title to the property being held by the feoffee was transferred to their 'cestui que use'. The term trust has several meanings: In sociology, trust is willing acceptance of one persons power to affect another. ... For other uses, see Equity (disambiguation). ...

The modern equivalent of a 'feoffe to uses' is the trustee, one who holds a legal and manegerial ownership in trust for the enjoyment of the beneficiary. The word trustee is a legal term that refers to a member of a trust, which can be set up for any of a variety of purposes, and is entrusted with the administration of property on behalf of others. ... A beneficiary in the broadest sense is a natural person or other legal entity who receives money or other benefits from a benefactor. ...