feoffment noun. ['fi:fm(ǝ)nt, 'fɛf-] obsolete exc. Hist. ME.
[Anglo-Norman, formed as FEOFF verb: see -MENT.]
Law.
1. The action of putting a person in possession of property, rents, etc., under the feudal system; the mode of conveying freehold property by livery of seisin. ME.
charter of feoffment, deed of feoffment: recording or (later) effecting a feoffment.
b. More fully feoffment of trust, feoffment upon trust, feoffment to uses. A conveyance of land to one person in trust for another, or for certain uses. L15.

2. Possession of property as a result of feoffment; the property itself. Only in ME.

3. A deed of feoffment. LME-L17.

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