feoffment

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English

Etymology

From Old French feoffement, fieffement. Compare Latin feoffamentum.

Pronunciation

Noun

feoffment (plural feoffments)

  1. (law) The grant of a feud or fee.
  2. (law, UK) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession
  3. (obsolete) The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed.
    • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:
      Thanne symonye and cyuile · stonden forth bothe / And vnfoldeth þe feffement · þat fals hath ymaked.

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  1. ^ Alexander M Burrill (1850–1851) “FEOFFMENT”, in A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: , volume (please specify |part= or |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: John S. Voorhies, , →OCLC.
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