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Meaning of FEOFFMENT

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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.]
 
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