feoffment
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈfɛfmənt/
feoffment (plural feoffments)
- (legal) The grant of a feud or fee.
- (legal, UK) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession.
- (obsolete) The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
- Thanne symonye and cyuile · stonden forth bothe / And vnfoldeth þe feffement · þat fals hath ymaked.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
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