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Feoffment

The gift of any corpo-real hereditament to another, (2 Bl. Comm. 310), operating by transmutation of possession, and requiring, as essential to its com-pletlon, that the selsen be passed, (watk. Conv. 183), whlch might he accomplished elther by investiture or by livery of seisin

Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)