The Collaborative International Dictionary
Feoffment \Feoff"ment\, n. [OF. feoffement, fieffement; cf. LL. feoffamentum.] (Law)
The grant of a feud or fee.
(Eng. Law) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession.
--Burrill.The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed. [Obs. in the U.S., Rare in Eng.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context legal English) The grant of a feud or fee. 2 (context legal UK English) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession. 3 (context obsolete English) The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed.
Wikipedia
In the Middle Ages, especially under the European feudal system, feoffment or enfeoffment was the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service. This mechanism was later used to avoid restrictions on the passage of title in land by a system in which a landowner would give land to one person for the use of another. The common law of estates in land grew from this concept.
Usage examples of "feoffment".
But when it became usual to insert the undertaking to warrant in a deed or charter of feoffment, it lost something of its former isolation as a duty standing by itself, and admitted of being [378] generalized.
You offer giving with feoffment, but it is no boon, for it places refusal beyond appeal.