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| Noun | 1. The grant of a feud or fee.[Websters]
2. A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession.[Websters] 3. The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed.[Websters]. | |
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Date "FEOFFMENT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1772. (references) |
| Etymology:Feoffment \Feoff"ment\, noun. [Old French expression feoffement, fieffement; compare to late Latin feoffamentum.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FEOFFMENT
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| Noah Webster | [Noun] feff'ment. The gift or grant of a fee or corporeal hereditament, as land, castles, honors, or other immovable thing; a grant in fee simple, to a man and his heirs forever. When in writing, it is called a deed of feoffment. The primary sense is the grant of a feud or an estate in trust. [See Feud.]. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Law | FEOFFMENT, conveyancing. 1. A gift of any corporeal hereditaments to another. It operates by transmutation of possession, and it is essential to its completion that the seisin be passed. Watk. Prin. Conv. 183. This term also signifies the instrument or deed by which such hereditament is conveyed. 2. This instrument was used as one of the earliest modes of conveyance of the common law. It signified, originally, the grant of a feud or fee; but it came, in time, to signify the grant of a free inheritance in fee, respect being had to the perpetuity of the estate granted, rather than to the feudal tenure. The feoffment was, likewise, accompanied by livery of seisin. The conveyance, by feoffment, with livery of seisin, has become infrequent, if not obsolete, in England; and in this country it has not been used in practice. Cruise, Dig. t. 32, c. 4. s. 3; Touchs. c. 9; 2 Bl. Corn. 20; Co. Litt. 9; 4 Kent, Com. 467; Perk. c. 3; Com. Dig. h.t.; 12 Vin. Ab. 167; Bac. Ab. h.t. in pr.; Doct. Plac. 271; Dane's Ab. c. 104, a. 3, s. 4. He who gives or enfeoffs is called the feoffor; and the person enfeoffed is denominated the feoffee. 2 Bl. Com. 20. See 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 2045, note. (references) | ||
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