feoffment
Britishnoun
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Freehold estates could thus be transferred from one person to another without the formal delivery of possession which was generally necessary to a feoffment.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
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 T. (Tobias) Smollett
He received in that year from the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's a feoffment of the manor of Portpool, which they had received in mortmain from Richard de Chyggewell, alderman and mercer of London.
From Memorials of Old London Volume I by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
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 Paul Vinogradoff
But the warranty of the lord and the feoffment were necessary as a rule.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
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