Look up: feoffment

1. Feoffment
   Feoff'ment noun [ Old French feoffement , fieffement ; confer Late Latin feoffamentum .] (Law) (a) The grant of a feud or fee. (b) (Eng. Law) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal here...
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2. Feoffment
   • (n.) The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed. • (n.) The grant of a feud or fee. • (n.) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession.
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3. feoffment
   in English law, the granting of a free inheritance of land (fee simple) to a man and his heirs. The delivery of possession (livery of seisin) was ... [1 related articles]
   Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/f/17
   
   
4. Feoffment
   A gift of any corporeal hereditaments to another. It operates by transmutation of possession, and it is essential to its completion that the seisin be passed. This term also signifies the instrument or deed by which such hereditament is conveyed.
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5. Feoffment
   `Feoffment`, in English law a feoffment was a transfer of property that gave the new owner the right to sell the land as well as the right to pass it on to his heirs. It was total relinquishment and transfer of all rights of ownership in land from one individual to another. It was the granting of a ...
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