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feoff·ment

 (fĕf′mənt, fēf′-)
n. Law
The transfer of a fee.

[Middle English feffement, from Anglo-Norman feoffement, from feoffer, to put in legal possession, from Old French fief, fief; see fee.]
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feoffment

(ˈfiːfmənt)
n
(Historical Terms) (in medieval Europe) a lord's act of granting a fief to his man
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feoff•ment

(ˈfɛf mənt, ˈfif-)
n.
the granting of a fief.
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feoffment

the granting of land to be held in fief.
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De acuerdo con una Carta del Cuarto Concilio Laterano (1215 d.C.), que autorizaba las colectas permanentes para la promocion de causas pias (75), si charities uses no se cumplian, los disponentes (feoffors charitable uses) no podrian alcanzar el cielo.
Esta influencia medieval ha sido puesta de relieve por Hayton y Marshall para quienes "the trust derives from the mediaeval practice of a" feoffor conveying a legal statute in land to a "feoffe to uses to hold it to the use of a "cestui que use" (66)".
Por razon de ausencia del feoffor, embarcado en la realizacion de embajadas comerciales y en la gestion de negocios.
Incluso, por commendatio del feoffor a un tercero para la realizacion de embaj adas comerciales (87).
Las promesas y las obligaciones que mediaban entre feoffors y feoffees, y entre feoffees y cestui que use, eran materia sobre la que los tribunales eclesiasticos se consideraban por completo competentes.
El terrateniente que hacia la transmision se llamaba feoffor, los que la recibian se llamaban feoffees to use o simplemente feoffees; el beneficiario se llamaba cestui que use [cestui a que use le feoffment fuit fait].
?Quien seria el feoffor o el settlor?, ?quien ostentaria la propiedad ultima del bien entregado en feoffment o en trust?
feoffors. In this curious situation, the feoffors granted their land, by
owned the land in fee simple, refused to follow the feoffors'