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
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 Paul Vinogradoff
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
It may be thought that custom, and express conditions of feoffment, must have acted against disruption.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
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 J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone
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