Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Law A grant of lands as a fee.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In law:
- n. Originally, the gift of a fief or feud.
- n. The conveyance of land by investiture, or words of donation, accompanied by livery of seizin; also, the document making such conveyance.
- n. A like transfer or creation of any corporeal hereditament or freehold estate.
Wiktionary
- n. law The grant of a feud or fee.
- n. law, UK A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession.
- n. US, UK The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The grant of a feud or fee.
- n. (Eng. Law) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession.
- n. Obs. in the U.S., Rare in Eng. The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed.
Etymologies
- Old French feoffement, fieffement; compare Latin feoffamentum. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English feffement, from Anglo-Norman feoffement, from feoffer, to put in legal possession, from Old French fief, fief; see fee. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“As examples of such fundamental customs, St. Germain mentioned, inter alia, the system of courts, trial by jury, freedom from arbitrary imprisonment, feudal customs, and especially the principle of primogeniture, and the form of conveyance of land known as feoffment with livery of seisin.”
“Cestui que (also cestuy que) (English pronunciation:/ˈsɛstwi keɪ/) is a shortened version of cestui a que use le feoffment fuit fait, literally, “The person for whose use the feoffment was made.””
The Volokh Conspiracy » The influence of French words in English legal terminology
“Cestui que (also cestuy que) (English pronunciation: /ˈsɛstwi keɪ/) is a shortened version of cestui a que use le feoffment fuit fait, literally, “The person for whose use the feoffment was made.””
The Volokh Conspiracy » The influence of French words in English legal terminology
“The old conveyance of feoffment, with livery of seizin—the turf and twig—clearly had to go.”
“Middleton and Sarah Dehon of Charlestown had executed “deeds of feoffment, with livery of seisin,” in 1836, instead of using more streamlined forms.15 In the rest of the country, the enormous demand meant that land documents had to become simple and standard.”
“If feoffees, who possess an estate only during the life of a son, where divers remainders are limited over, make a feoffment in fee to him, by the feoffment, all the future remainders are destroyed.”
“If a tenant in tail after a possibility make a feoffment of his land, he in reversion may enter for the forfeiture.”
“The demesne of Tossbury (by Camden written Tossbery) was anciently a grant in feoffment to the College of Physicians by King John.”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 375, June 13, 1829
“The disabilities under which a feudal owner very frequently lay gave rise to the practice of conveying land by other methods than that of feoffment with livery of seisin, that is, a handing over of the feudal possession.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
“If the tenant in capite made a feoffment, he became immediate lord of his feoffee, and as to the king a mediate lord.”
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