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.

Synonyms

enfeoffment

Related terms

Translations

grant of a feud or fee

Chinese:
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Finnish: läänittäminen (fi)
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gift or conveyance in fee

Chinese:
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Finnish: läänityksen siirto
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References

1859, Alexander Mansfield, Law Dictionary

feoffment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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