what is foeffment?

Answer 1

FEOFFMENT:
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. This term also signifies the instrument or deed by which such hereditament is conveyed.

This instrument was used as one of the earliest modes of conveyance of the common law. It signified the grant of a feud or fee, but it came 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 accompanied by livery of seisin. The conveyance by feoffment, with livery of seisin, has become infrequent, if not obsolete in England. It has not been used in practice in the U.S.

Total relinquishment and transfer of all rights of ownership in land from one individual to another.

A feoffment in old England was a transfer of property that gave the new owner the right to sell the land as well as the right to pass it on to his heirs.

An essential element of feoffment was livery of seisin, a ceremony for transferring the possession of real property from one person to another.

Feoffment is also known as enfeoffment.

Answer 2

Main Entry: feoff·ment
Pronunciation: 'fef-m&nt, 'fEf-
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English feffement, from Anglo-French, from feffer, feoffer to invest with a fee, from fieu, fé fee
: the granting of a fee

Answer 3

Its Feoffment:
in English law, the granting of a free inheritance of land (fee simple) to a man and his heirs.

Answer 4

It could be some kind of bestowal, or gift, of land/property allowed through a will in ancient times.

Answer 5

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