Therefore from you and your companions I will require no feoffment.

De jure this acquisition had to be legitimised by imperial feoffment.

In the act of parliament declaring the feoffment he is for the first time designated 'knight.'

You offer giving with feoffment, but it is no boon, for it places refusal beyond appeal.

Bargain and sale was a form of equitable transfer which had for some purposes superseded the common law feoffment.

Feoffment - "physical delivery of possession of land by feoffeor to the feofee"

Families who have received episcopale feoffment of the country by the Bishop of Brescia:

The deed of feoffment dated 1 November 1585 exists in the George Grant Francis collection in Cardiff:

Before 1397 Henry Grey de Wilton had made a feoffment of "Portpole maner called Grey's Inn" to certain persons in trust.

Every feoffment made by a new tenant could not be in frankalmoign, since the donee was a layman; it would be reckoned by the laws of socage.

Often the donor laid the charter of feoffment or some other symbol such as a knife or other symbol of possession upon the altar of the church.

If Martin sold Blackacre to Martha, but did not go through the formal routines of feoffment to complete the conveyance, Martha could not become the legal owner.

A chartis reddendis was an ancient writ, which lays against one who had charters of feoffment entrusted to his keeping, and who refused to deliver them to the owner.

This was short for "cestui a qui use le feoffment fuit fait", i.e. "The person to whose use the feoffment was made."

The feoffee was thenceforward said to hold his property "of" or "from" the feoffor, in return for a specified service depending on the exact form of feudal land tenure involved in the feoffment.

One of the effects of the Statute of Uses in executing the use, was to make a mere sale of land without feoffment (the formal public transfer) effective to pass the legal estate.

He had no issue by either marriage, but by a mistress had two illegitimate sons, Anthony and Edmund, on whom by a deed of feoffment he settled part of his estates in 1547.

The imperial writ of feoffment emphasises, that Magnus had requested to be also enfeoffed with the Saxon electoral privilege, however, further explaining that this could not happen at that time "due to moving reasons".

This was the mortgage by conveyance (aka mortgage in fee) or, when written, the mortgage by charter and reconveyance and took the form of a feoffment, bargain and sale, or lease and release.

There the court record is useful in describing the nature of English feudalism: "At common law a feoffment in fee did not originally pass an estate in the sense in which the term is now understood.

Feoffment, (or Enfeoffment) in English law was a transfer of land or property that gave the new holder the right to sell it as well as the right to pass it on to his heirs as an inheritance.

A feoffment "to the use of such person and persons, and of such estate and estates as I shall appoint by my will" produced a use without formally creating a legal estate; the land was held on a lease, rather than freehold.

In feudal England a feoffment could only be made of a fee (or "fief"), which is an estate in land, that is to say an ownership of rights over land, rather than ownership of the land itself, the only true owner of which was the monarch under his allodial title.