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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Feoffment \Feoff"ment\, n. [OF. feoffement, fieffement; cf. LL.
     feoffamentum.] (Law)
     (a) The grant of a feud or fee.
     (b) (Eng. Law) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other
         corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery
         of possession. --Burrill.


     (c) The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments
         are conveyed. [Obs. in the U.S., Rare in Eng.] Feofor

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  FEOFFMENT, conveyancing. A gift of any corporeal hereditaments to another. 
  It operates by transmutation of possession, and it is essential to its 
  completion that the seisin be passed. Watk. Prin. Conv. 183. This term also 
  signifies the instrument or deed by which such hereditament is conveyed. 
       2. This instrument was used as one of the earliest modes of conveyance 
  of the common law. It signified, originally, the grant of a feud or fee; but 
  it came, in time, to signify the grant of a free inheritance in fee, respect 
  being had to the perpetuity of the estate granted, rather than to the feudal 
  tenure. The feoffment was, likewise, accompanied by livery of seisin. The 
  conveyance, by feoffment, with livery of seisin, has become infrequent, if 
  not obsolete, in England; and in this country it has not been used in 
  practice. Cruise, Dig. t. 32, c. 4. s. 3; Touchs. c. 9; 2 Bl. Corn. 20; Co. 
  Litt. 9; 4 Kent, Com. 467; Perk.. c. 3; Com. Dig. h.t.; 12 Vin. Ab. 167; 
  Bac. Ab. h.t. in pr.; Doct. Plac. 271; Dane's Ab. c. 104, a. 3, s. 4. He 
  who gives or enfeoffs is called the feoffor; and the person enfeoffed is 
  denominated the feoffee. 2 Bl. Com. 20. See 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 2045, note. 
  
  

















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