feoffment
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French feoffement, fieffement. Compare Latin feoffamentum.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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.
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Translations[edit]
grant of a feud or fee
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gift or conveyance in fee
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References[edit]
- “feoffment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.