Subject: FEOFFMENT
Resent-Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 21:04:18 -0700 (PDT)
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Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 00:04:52 -0400
From: "Steven J. Coker" 
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Extracted From:
  A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856
  by John Bouvier
  CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA

TO ENFEOFF. To make a gift of any corporeal hereditaments to another.

FEOFFMENT, conveyancing. A gift of any corporeal hereditaments to another. It
operates by transmutation of possession, and it is essential to its completion
that the seisin be passed.... This term also signifies the instrument or deed by
which such hereditament is conveyed.
   This instrument was used as one of the earliest modes of conveyance of the
common law. It signified, originally, the grant of a feud or fee; but it came,
in time, to signify the grant of a free inheritance in fee, respect being had to
the perpetuity of the estate granted, rather than to the feudal tenure. The
feoffment was, likewise, accompanied by livery of seisin. The conveyance, by
feoffment, with livery of seisin, has become infrequent, if not obsolete, in
England; and in this country it has not been used in practice.... He who gives
or enfeoffs is called the feoffor; and the person enfeoffed is denominated the
feoffee....

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