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What is a feoffment?

What is a feoffment? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law) The grant of a feud or fee.
  2. (law, Britain) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession.
  3. (obsolete) The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed.
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Unless he relies on long continued user, he must rely upon grant or feoffment.
If a tenant in tail after a possibility make a feoffment of his land, he in reversion may enter for the forfeiture.
The tenant is of age sufficient to alienate his estate by feoffment at the age of fifteen.
It appears that the feoffment of free tenants was no equivalent for the destruction of the tithing.
It may be thought that custom, and express conditions of feoffment, must have acted against disruption.
A tenant can alienate his lands by feoffment at fifteen years of age.

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