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feoff·ment

 (fĕf′mənt, fēf′-)
n. Law
The transfer of a fee.
[Middle English feffement, from Anglo-Norman feoffement, from feoffer, to put in legal possession, from Old French fief, fief; see fee.]
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feoffment

(ˈfiːfmənt)
n
(Historical Terms) (in medieval Europe) a lord's act of granting a fief to his man
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feoff•ment

(ˈfɛf mənt, ˈfif-)
n.
the granting of a fief.
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feoffment

the granting of land to be held in fief.
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For a brief time, the Statute of Uses of 1536 forbade trusts circumventing the law and (more importantly from the Crown's perspective) taxation of intestacy on the ground that these trusts (or a 'nude parole' will) had resulted in 'fraudulent feoffments'.
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