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, section II:
- Thanne symonye and cyuile · stonden forth bothe / And vnfoldeth þe feffement · þat fals hath ymaked.
Synonyms
Translations
grant of a feud or fee
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gift or conveyance in fee
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References
- Alexander M[ansfield] Burrill (1850–1851) “FEOFFMENT”, in A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: […], volumes (please specify |part= or |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: John S. Voorhies, […], →OCLC.
- “feoffment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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