FEOFFMENT

In Law, a species of conveyance. It was in early times the public and solemn mode of alienating lands and tenements in po e ion, and was performed by a deed, accompanied by livery of seisin; which last was the delivery of the land itself, effected by certain symbolical acts and customary words. As secret conveyances to uses gradually prevailed, feoffments fell comparatively into disuse. The grantor is termed the feoffor, and the person receiving the feoffee. FERjiE. (Lat. fer us, wild.) The name given by Linnaeus to the order of Mammal i a comprehending those which subsist more or le exclusively on the flesh of other animals. They are characterized by having three kinds of teeth, incisors, canines, and molars; unguiculate extremities, without an opposable thumb on the fore foot, but with the power of rotation in the forearm. This order corresponds with the Insect i vor a, and the Plantigrade, Digitigrade, and Pinnigrade Carnivora of Cuvier's Carna iers. [s. 458]