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feoffment Law.|ˈfɛfmənt|
Forms: 4–6, 9 dial. feff(e)ment, (5 feefe-, fef(e)ment), feoffament, 5, 9 dial. feftment, 6–7 feoffe-, feof(e)ment, 6– feoffment.
[a. AF. feoffement; see feoff v. and -ment.]
1. The action of investing a person with a fief or fee. In technical lang. applied esp. to the particular mode of conveyance (originally the only one used, but now almost obsolete) in which a person is invested with a freehold estate in lands by livery of seisin (at common law generally but not necessarily evidenced by a deed, which however is now required by statute).
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 254 Edward..salle gyue Philip þe Kyng Alle holy Gascoyn..After þe forty dayes of þat feffement, Philip..salle gyue [etc.]. 1439E.E. Wills (1882) 118 By wey of graunt or feeffement. 1440Promp. Parv. 153 Fefement, feofamentum. 1465Mann. & Househ. Exp. 475 Item, to go throw wyth the feffement of my lordes of Norffolke. 1531Dial. on Laws Eng. i. xxi. (1638) 39 He that hath the estate, may lawfully..make a feoffement thereof. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 25 Feoffment..is the most ancient and necessary Conveyance which is used by the Common Law. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. ii. xx. 311 By the mere words of the deed the feoffment is by no means perfected. 1875Poste Gaius ii. Comm. (ed. 2) 172 The essence of a feoffment is livery of seisin.
b. spec. (more fully) feoffment in, of, upon, trust; feoffment to uses: see feoff v. 1 b.
1489Plumpton Corr. 70 A feoffament of trust indented made by your mastership unto me. 1490Ibid. 97 William Plompton..shewed to me a copy of astate & feftment, mad by my master..to certaine feofes, to his beofe [= to his own use] of lands..for terme of his lyfe. 1538Leland Itin. IV. 14 To whom he left his Land in Feoment withowt Declaration of Wylle to any use. 1552Huloet, Feofment of trust, fidei commissum. 1606Holland Sueton. §23. 165 The iurisdiction as touching feofments upon trust. 1695Kennett Par. Antiq. (1818) II. 58 This feoffment was judicially suppressed..Feb. 13, 1633. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) I. vi. 344 The practice of feoffments to uses.
c. dial. An endowment.
1561Richmond. Wills (Surtees) 151, I will that all suche feoffaments and annuities as I have made unto Symonde..Askwithe shall stand according to th' effecte of my graunte thereof maide. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Feftments, portions of property belonging to an endowment.
d. deed of feoffment: The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed.
1545–6in Eng. Gilds (1870) 252 Hys dede of feoffement. 1616B. Jonson Devil an Ass iv. iii, He..ha's caused A deed of feoffment..To be drawne yonder. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 79 By the custom of gavelkind, an infant of fifteen years may by one species of conveyance (called a deed of feoffment) convey away his lands in fee simple. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xxiv. 111 The lower province was granted by two deeds of feoffment.
†2. = 1 d. Obs.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. ii. 72 Symonye and cyuile..vnfoldeth þe feffement. 14..Plumpton Corr. 46 My nephew..shewed to me a wyll made upon a feftment. 1672Petty Pol. Anat. (1691) 7 Forg'd Feofments.
3. The fief conferred.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 249 Fo [v.r. To] wild þe feffementes ald & þei granted þertille. |