enfeoffment
(ɛnˈfɛfmənt)
Also 5 enfeft-, 6 infeoff-, 8 enfeofment.
[f. enfeoff + -ment.]
a. The action of enfeoffing. b. The deed or instrument by which a person is enfeoffed. c. The fief or estate, in quot. fig. d. The possession of a fief.
| 1460 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 112 For the in paradyse I ordeynnyd A plase: fulle Ryche was thyn enfeftment. 1597 Daniel Civ. Wares vii. lxxxii, The King, as husband to the crown, doth by The wifes infeoffment hold. 1614 Selden Titles Hon. 190 By their Charters, Enfeoffments, and Testaments recorded in old storie. 1762 tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. VI. 166 Otho..invested the houses of Stolberg and Schwarzburg with the joint enfeoffment of it. 1769 Robertson Chas. V, III. vii. 54 The Spanish ambassador would not be present at the solemnity of his enfeofment. 1839 Keightley Hist. Eng. I. 238 That an enfeoffment to that effect might be executed. |