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feoffment

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FEOFFMENT

n.feff'ment. [Law L. feoffamentum.] The gift or grant of a fee or corporeal hereditament, as land, castles, honors, or other immovable thing; a grant in fee simple, to a man and his heirs forever. When in writing, it is called a deed of feoffment. The primary sense is the grant of a feud or an estate in trust. [See Feud. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FEOFFMENT

Feoff "ment, n. Etym: [OF. feoffement, fieffement; cf. LL. feoffamentum.] (Law ) (a ) The grant of a feud or fee. (b ) (Eng. Law ) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession. Burrill.(c ) The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed. [Obs. in the U.S., Rare in Eng. ]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

feoffment

feoff ment |ˈfēfmənt ˈfifmənt | noun historical (in feudal law ) a grant of ownership of freehold property to someone. DERIVATIVES feof for |ˈfēfər |noun ORIGIN Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French fieffer put in legal possession, from fief (see fee and fief ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

feoffment

feoffment |ˈfiːfm (ə )nt, ˈfɛf -| noun historical (in feudal law ) a grant of ownership of freehold property to someone. DERIVATIVES feoffor |ˈfɛfə |noun ORIGIN Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French fieffer put in legal possession , from fief (see fee and fief ).