feoffment
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Now, from the point of view of later law this meant that the two freeholds were created each by a special feoffment.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
They cannot, they say, help her to her "conjunct feoffment" while her brother makes war on them, and she knows not where any other help may be got.
From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by Stone, J. M. (Jean Mary)
But the warranty of the lord and the feoffment were necessary as a rule.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
It appears that the feoffment of free tenants was no equivalent for the destruction of the tithing.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
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
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