enfeoffment

enfeoffment
en·feoff·ment n
1: the act of enfeoffing
2: the instrument by which one is enfeoffed

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

enfeoffment
index alienation (transfer of title)

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


enfeoffment
Also known as feoffment. Complete surrender and transfer of all land ownership rights from one person to another. In old English law, an enfeoffment was a transfer of property by which the new owner was given both the right to sell the land and the right to pass it on to heirs, evidenced by livery of seisin, a ceremony for transferring the possession of real property from one individual to another.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


enfeoffment
Also known as feoffment. Complete surrender and transfer of all land ownership rights from one person to another. In old English law, an enfeoffment was a transfer of property by which the new owner was given both the right to sell the land and the right to pass it on to heirs, evidenced by livery of seisin, a ceremony for transferring the possession of real property from one individual to another.

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