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ˌsubinfeuˈdation Feudal Law.
[ad. F. † subinfeudation (Cotgr.) or med.L. *subinfeudātio: see sub- 9 (b) and infeudation. Cf. F. sous-infeudation (16th c.).]
1. The granting of lands by a feudatory to an inferior to be held of himself, on the same terms as he held them of his superior; the relation or tenure so established.
In England this practice was abolished in 1290 by the statute Quia Emptores, but in Scotland the principle of subinfeudation still survives.
1730M. Wright Introd. Law Tenures 156 note, Subinfeudation (by which a new inferior Feud was carved out of the old, the old one still subsisting). 1766Blackstone Comm. II. 91 The superior lords observed, that by this method of subinfeudation they lost all their feodal profits, of wardships, marriages, and escheats, which fell into the hands of these mesne or middle lords. Ibid. 136 The widow is immediate tenant to the heir, by a kind of subinfeudation or under⁓tenancy. a1862Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 353 Subinfeudation, so general in France, was checked by Magna Charta. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. vii. 182 To the proprietary was given the power of creating manors and courts baron, and of establishing a colonial aristocracy on the system of sub-infeudation. 1880J. B. Phear Aryan Village vi. 154 This system of sub-infeudation..prevails universally throughout Bengal.
2. An instance of this; also, an estate or fief created by this process.
1766Blackstone Comm. II. 257 In subinfeudations, or alienations of lands by a vasal to be holden as of himself. 1773Archæologia II. 306 These land-holders of the first class, or barons, had a power of making subinfeudations of their land. 1832Austin Jurispr. (1879) II. 879 The statute ‘Quia Emptores’ 18 Edw. 1 prevented any new subinfeudations. 1870Lower Hist. Sussex I. 265 The manor is a sub-infeudation of Washington.
transf.1840New Monthly Mag. LIX. 161 What sub⁓infeudations of parentheses, what accumulations of paragraph upon paragraph.
So subinˈfeudatory, a sub-vassal holding by subinfeudation.
1886Encycl. Brit. XX. 298/2 At the time of the Conquest the manor was granted to Walter d'Eincourt, and in the 12th century it was divided among the three daughters of his subinfeudatory Paganus. |