The donation of each physical inheritance to another (2 Bl. Comm. 310), which acts by the conversion of property and requires as essential for its completion that iron be transmitted (Watk. Conv. 183), which can be achieved either by investiture or by livery of Seisin. 1 vanity. Real prop. 33. See Thatcher v. Omans, 3Pick. (Mass) 532; English v. French, 3 N. H.
200; Perry v. Preis, 1 MB. 554; Orndoff v. Turman, 2 Leigh (Va.) 233, 9 p.m. Dec. COS. It is also the sending or transfer by which such physical inheritance is transmitted. A fief originally meant the granting of a quarrel or a fee; That is, a barony or a knight`s stamp, for which certain services were due by the Feoffee to the Feoffor. That was the true meaning of the word; But by custom, it also later meant granting (with varnishing seisin) a free inheritance to a man and his heirs, referring to the eternity of possession rather than feudal possession.
1 Vogt. Eng. Law, 00, 91. This was the only method (of ordinary use) of transferring ownership of lands that were owned, but which has now been largely forgotten even in England, having been almost completely superseded by part of this class of transfers based on the legal law of the Empire. 1 Steph. Komm. 407, 408. “Feoffor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feoffor. Retrieved 16 October 2022. Feoffment, in English law, the granting of a free inheritance of land (fief simple) to a man and his heirs. The transfer of ownership (seisin painting) took place on the land of the property and was carried out by the Feoffor at Feoffee in the presence of witnesses.
Written translations were often common and mandatory after 1677. Complete waiver and transfer of all land ownership rights from one person to another. A fief in Old England was a transfer of ownership that gave the new owner the right to sell the land as well as the right to pass it on to his heirs. An essential element of the subservience was seisin painting, a ceremony of transferring ownership of real estate from one person to another.
