The gift of any corporeal hereditament to another, (2 Bl. Comm. 310), operating by transmutation of possession, and requiring, as essential to its completion, that the seisen be passed, (Watk. Conv. 183), which might be accomplished either by investiture or by livery of seisin. Also the deel or conveyance by which such corporeal hereditament is passed. A feoffment originally … [Read more...] about FEOFFMENT
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FERIAL DAYS
Holidays; also weekdays, as distinguished from Sunday. Cowell. … [Read more...] about FERIAL DAYS
FEOFFOR
The person making a feoffment or enfeoffing another in fee. … [Read more...] about FEOFFOR
FERITA
In old European law. A wound; a stroke. Spelman. … [Read more...] about FERITA
FEOH
This Saxon word meant originally cattle, and thence property or money, and, by a second transition, wages, reward, or . fee. It was probably the original form from which, the words "feod," "feuduin," "fief," "feu," and "fee" (art meaning a feudal grant of land) have been derived. … [Read more...] about FEOH