Feoffment

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Law A grant of lands as a fee.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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.
  • n. The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • n. The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In law:
  • n. Originally, the gift of a fief or feud.
  • n. The conveyance of land by investiture, or words of donation, accompanied by livery of seizin; also, the document making such conveyance.
  • n. A like transfer or creation of any corporeal hereditament or freehold estate.
  • Word Usage
    "As examples of such fundamental customs, St. Germain mentioned, inter alia, the system of courts, trial by jury, freedom from arbitrary imprisonment, feudal customs, and especially the principle of primogeniture, and the form of conveyance of land known as feoffment with livery of seisin."
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