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Feoffment

//ˈfɛfmənt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The grant of a feud or fee.
  2. 2
    A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession UK
  3. 3
    The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed. obsolete

    "Thanne symonye and cyuile · stonden forth bothe / And vnfoldeth þe feffement · þat fals hath ymaked."

Etymology

From Old French feoffement, fieffement. Compare Latin feoffamentum.

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