FEOFFMENT

Total relinquishment and transfer of all rights of
ownership in land from one individual to another.
A feoffment in old England was a transfer of
property that gave the new owner the right to
sell the land as well as the right to pass it on to
his heirs.
An essential element of feoffment was livery
of seisin, a ceremony for transferring the posses-
sion of real property from one person to another.