feoffment

  1. Noun.  (legal) The grant of a feud or fee.
  2. Noun.  (legal, UK) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession.
  3. Noun.  (obsolete, or) The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed.

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