Definition of Feoffment. Meaning of Feoffment. Synonyms of Feoffment

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Definition of Feoffment

Feoffment
Feoffment Feoff"ment, n. [OF. feoffement, fieffement; cf. LL. feoffamentum.] (Law) (a) The grant of a feud or fee. (b) (Eng. Law) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession. --Burrill. (c) The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed. [Obs. in the U.S., Rare in Eng.]

Meaning of Feoffment from wikipedia

- The word feoffment derives from the Old French feoffement or fieffement; compare with the Late Latin feoffamentum. In English law, feoffment was a transfer...
- Tapestry) Fief Ecclesiastical fief Crown land Allodial title Appanage V****al Feoffment Seignory Subinfeudation Feoffee Fealty Homage Affinity Feudal maintenance...
- Tapestry) Fief Ecclesiastical fief Crown land Allodial title Appanage V****al Feoffment Seignory Subinfeudation Feoffee Fealty Homage Affinity Feudal maintenance...
- Zepterlehen). As literacy rose, a charter of feoffment was also made out as part of the act that, over time, listed the feoffed estate and benefits that the v****al...
- shortened version of "cestui a que use le feoffment fuit fait", lit. 'the person for whose use/benefit the feoffment was made'; in modern terms, it corresponds...
- Tapestry) Fief Ecclesiastical fief Crown land Allodial title Appanage V****al Feoffment Seignory Subinfeudation Feoffee Fealty Homage Affinity Feudal maintenance...
- the original freeholder, merely in order to be re-granted possession by feoffment as freeholder in their own right. Quitclaim may originally have been an...
- 1585, some time after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The deed of feoffment dated 1 November 1585 exists in the George Grant Francis collection in...
- fee for claiming property entailed by a lessee beyond the terms of his feoffment.[clarification needed] A letter dated 1539 from the Lisle Letters describes...
- Tapestry) Fief Ecclesiastical fief Crown land Allodial title Appanage V****al Feoffment Seignory Subinfeudation Feoffee Fealty Homage Affinity Feudal maintenance...