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Feoffment

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Feoffment \Feoff"ment\, n. [OF. feoffement, fieffement; cf. LL.
   feoffamentum.] (Law)
   (a) The grant of a feud or fee.
   (b) (Eng. Law) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other
       corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery
       of possession. --Burrill.
   (c) The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments
       are conveyed. [Obs. in the U.S., Rare in Eng.]
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