Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The transfer of a fee.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law:
- noun Originally, the gift of a fief or feud.
- noun The conveyance of land by investiture, or words of donation, accompanied by livery of seizin; also, the document making such conveyance.
- noun A like transfer or creation of any corporeal hereditament or freehold estate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The grant of a feud or fee.
- noun (Eng. Law) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession.
- noun Obs. in the U.S., Rare in Eng. The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed.
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- noun law The
grant of afeud orfee . - noun law, UK A
gift orconveyance infee of land or othercorporeal hereditaments , accompanied by actualdelivery ofpossession . - noun US, UK The
instrument ordeed by which corporeal hereditaments areconveyed .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
COMMON LAW PETER STEIN 1968
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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 2010
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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 2010
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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.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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The old conveyance of feoffment, with livery of seizin—the turf and twig—clearly had to go.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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The old conveyance of feoffment, with livery of seizin—the turf and twig—clearly had to go.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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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.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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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.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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The old conveyance of feoffment, with livery of seizin—the turf and twig—clearly had to go.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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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.
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