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Definition of Feoffment
1. n. The grant of a feud or fee.
Definition of Feoffment
1. Noun. (legal) The grant of a feud or fee. ¹
2. Noun. (legal UK) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete or rare US UK) The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Feoffment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feoffment
Literary usage of Feoffment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"1, 1540) had opened up new worlds to the conveyancer, the feoffment still remained
the ... The feoffment i' "the ancient and the most necessary conveyance, ..."
2. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1793)
"By acceptance of which livery B. has determined his election to take by feoffment.
2 Le. 192. Irin. 28 Eliz. С. В. Lennard's DW.ISC ft. ..."
3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"feoffment. A gift of any corporeal hereditaments to another. ... The conveyance
by feoffment with livery of seisin has become infrequent, if not obsolete, ..."
4. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"So a feoffment of lands, which are uncertain till a future act, ... The proper
and original meaning of the word feoffment was the gift of a feud ; but by ..."
5. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"He must make a feoffment with livery of seisin. What, we must ask, does this mean
1 feoffment. feoffment is a species of the genus ..."
6. Institutes of American Law by John Bouvier (1854)
"feoffment, by the ancient law, strictly and properly was the gift or grant of
any houses, messuages, lands, or other corporeal and immovable things of like ..."
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