noun
- Plural of feoffment; the act of investing someone with a fief or fee; a conveyance of land in fee simple.
Usage: archaic; legal history; primarily used in historical and legal contexts relating to medieval and early modern English property law
Examples
- The feoffments recorded in the manor's archives documented the transfer of lands during the 14th century.
- Medieval feoffments were formal ceremonies that established ownership and feudal obligations.
- The lawyer studied ancient feoffments to understand the evolution of property rights in England.
- Feoffments with livery of seisin required the physical delivery of a symbolic object to complete the transaction.