245. Livery of seisin and feoffment and their abolition.

245. Livery of seisin and feoffment and their abolition.

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(B)     Assurances at Common Law

At common law an estate of immediate freehold passed by livery of seisin. This form of assurance was known as a 'feoffment'1. Livery of seisin is livery in deed or livery in law.