The act of investing a person with a feof or fee - a mode of conveyance in which a person is invested with a freehold estate in lands by livery of seisin.
a means of conveying property, technically by a ceremony called livery of seizin
Granting of a free inheritance of land (fee simple) to a man and his heirs. The delivery of possession (livery of seisin) was done on the site of the land and was made by the feoffor to the feoffee in the presence of witnesses. Written conveyances were often customary and, after 1677, mandatory.
Transfer of land from one person to another where the land is held subject to a fee or service
A gift and grant of land by which the recipient acquires a freehold. (Hogue, Arthur R. Origins of the Common Law, 256) Related terms: Fief-Rente / Feoffee / Fief de Haubert / Fief
Transfer of land from one person to another. 529.