1. A transfer of land or property to another person, historically done by delivery of a symbolic object or by formal ceremony.
Usage: archaic; legal history; primarily used in medieval and early modern English law

Examples

• The feoffment of the estate was completed when the lord handed over a symbolic turf and twig to the new owner.
• Medieval property transfers often involved a feoffment ceremony witnessed by the community.
• The document recorded the feoffment of lands to the monastery in perpetuity.
• A feoffment required no written deed in early English law, only the formal delivery of possession.
• The king granted the feoffment of several manors to his loyal knight.