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Re: Deed Terms
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Symonds <[log in to unmask]>
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Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history." <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:23:51 -0600
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Feoffment: Blacks Law Dictionary, 4th edition, @746, "The gift of any 
corporeal hereditament to another, operating by transmutation of 
possession, and requiring as essential to its ompletion that the seisin 
be passed... a gift of a freehold interest in land accompanied by livery 
of seisin. The essential part is the livery of seisin".

Marilyn Symonds

On 11/14/2011 8:10 AM, Charlie Weaver wrote:
> Below is an abstracted entry from the Caroline Co VA
> Order Books.
> "Court of 10 Oct 1740: William Robards and Mary his wife
> acknowledge their deed of feoffment with liv[very and] seizin
> endorsed and receipt to John Adam Linck."
>
> I can't seem to find any definition of the term "feoffment".
> "[F]Seossment" is not familiar to me either.
> Charlie
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