ENFEOFFMENT

Also known as feoffment. Complete surrender and
transfer of all land ownership rights from one per-
son to another. In old ENGLISH LAW, an enfeoff-
ment was a transfer of property by which the new
owner was given both the right to sell the land
and the right to pass it on to heirs, evidenced by
livery of seisin, a ceremony for transferring the
possession of real property from one individual to