feoffment
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Unless he relies on long continued user, he must rely upon grant or feoffment.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
Then petition for a gracious dispensation from personal attendance, and request his Majesty to grant a written order for the feoffment.
From The Youth of the Great Elector by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
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.
From The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
Other ways, besides an actual feoffment to uses, of creating a use had been in vogue before the statute.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
They deal almost exclusively with the case of a feoffment made by the lord to a villain and his heirs, and give the feoffee an action only on the ground of implied manumission.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
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