Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Feoffment
Hist. 1. The act of conveying a freehold estate; a grant of land in fee simple. - Also termed feoffment with livery of seisin.
contra formam feoffmenti
[Latin "contrary to the form of- feoffment"] Hist. A writ that commanded a 1downer to stop demanding from a tenant tre services than those included in the ten:trit's deed to the land. - Also spelled contra pwmam feoffamenti."Contra formam feoffamenti is a writ that lies where a man before the statute of quia emptores terrarum, made 18 Ed. 1, infeoffed another by deed to do certain service; if the feoffor or his heirs distrain him to do other service than is comprised in the deed, then the tenant shall have this writ, commanding him not to distrain him to do other service than is comprised in the deed." Termes de la Ley 116 (1st Am. ed. 1812).
deed of feoffment
See FEOFFMENT.
enfeoffment
n. 1. At common law, the act or process of transferring possession and ownership of an estate in land. - Also termed infeudation. 2. The property or estate so transferred. 3. The instrument or deed by which one obtains such property or estate. - Also spelled infeotment. - Also termed feoff'ment.
feoffment to uses
An enfeoffment of land to one person for the use of a third party. ( The feoffee was bound in conscience to hold the land according to the prescribed use and could derive no benefit from the holding. "Conveyances of freehold land could originally be made ay , ni by a feoffment with livery of seisin. This was a solemn ceremony carried out by the parties entering on the land, and the feoffor, in the presence of witnesses, delivering the seisin to the feoffee either by some symbolic act, such as handing him a twig or sod of earth, or by uttering some words such as Enter into this land and God give you joy' and leaving him in possession of the land." Robert E. Megarry & H.W.R. Wade, The Law of Real Property 47 (5th ed. 1984). 2. The land so granted. 3. The charter that transfers the land. - Also termed deed of feoffment.
feoffment with livery of seisin
See FEOFFMENT (1).
infeoffment.
See ENFEOFFMENT.