feoffment
English
Etymology
From Old French feoffement, fieffement. Compare Latin feoffamentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɛfmənt/
Noun
feoffment (plural feoffments)
- (law) The grant of a feud or fee.
- (law, UK) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession[1]
- (obsolete) The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
- Thanne symonye and cyuile · stonden forth bothe / And vnfoldeth þe feffement · þat fals hath ymaked.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
Synonyms
- enfeoffment
Related terms
- feoff
- feoffee
Translations
grant of a feud or fee
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gift or conveyance in fee
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References
- 1859, Alexander Mansfield, Law Dictionary
- feoffment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913