feoffment in English

noun
1
(in feudal law) a grant of ownership of freehold property to someone.
He was still the tenant in 1398; judging from a 1403 feoffment , he may have been holding as a trustee for the dower rights of Gile's widow, Margaret.

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1. By the word Appendant in a deed, nothing can be conveyed which is itself substantial corporeal real property, and capable of passing by feoffment and livery of seisin: for one kind of corporeal real property cannot be Appendant to another description of the like real property, it bei

2. By the word Appendant in a deed, nothing can be conveyed which is itself substantial corporeal real property, and capable of passing by feoffment and livery of seisin: for one kind of corporeal real property cannot be Appendant to another description of the like real property, it bei

3. And in ſ igniories, or rever ſ ions of lands, ſ uch grant, together with the attornment of the tenant (while Attornments were requi ſ ite) were held to be of equal notoriety with, and therefore equivalent to, a feoffment and livery of lands in immediate po ſ ſ e ſ ſ ion.