Feoffment. 1. The gift of a feud; infeudation. See Feud. 2. The gift of any corporeal hereditament by delivery of possession upon or within view of the land. 2 Bl. Com. 310; 3 N.H. 260. Enfeoff. To give a feud. Feoffor.
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.
Feoffment
Definition - Noun
: the historical method of granting a freehold estate in land by actual delivery of possession orig. by livery of seisin
Pronunciation'fef-m&nt, 'fEf- ...
This fine is called a feoffment of record.
2. A fine sur cognizance de droit tantum or acknowledgment of the right merely.
3.
 See also: Law, Land, Thing, Estate, Attorney
  
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