FEOFFMENT TO USE. A feoffment of lands made to one person for the benefit or to the use of another. In such case the feoffee was bound in conscience to hold the lands according to the use, and could himself derive no benefit. Sometimes such feoffments were made to the use of the feoffer. The effect of such conveyance was entirely changed by the statute of uses. See Wins. R. P. (6th ed.) 155 ; USE. Since that statute, a feoffment di rected to operate to the use of any other per son than the feoffee, though it be a common law conveyance, so far as it conveys the land to the feoffee, derives its effect from the stat ute of uses, so far as the use is limited by it to the person or persons in whose favor it is declared. Thus, if A be desirous to convey to B in fee, he may do so by eufeoffing a third person, C, to hold to him and his to the use of B and his heirs, the of which will be to convey the legal estate in fee--Sim ple to B. For since the statute of uses,'the
legal estate passes to the by means of the livery as it would have done before ; but no sooner has this taken place than the limitation to uses begins to operate, and C thereby becomes seised to the use deflued or limited, the consequence of which is that by force of the legislative enactment the legal estate is eo instanti taken out of him, and vests in B, for the like interest as was lim ited in the use. B thus becomes the legal ten ant as effectually as if the feoffment had been made to himself, and without the inter vention of a trustee. This method is not much practised in consequence of the livery of seisin, which has become obsolete. See 2 Sand. Us. 13; Watk. Cqnv. 288; FEOFFMENT.