A legal process or contract in which someone transfers property or land to another person, commonly used in medieval English law.
From Old French feoeffement, from feoff (to invest with property). The -ment suffix converts the verb to an abstract noun representing the action or result.
Feoffment was so important in medieval times that it had to be done publicly and with witnesses—you couldn't transfer land secretly; everyone in the village basically had to watch it happen.
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