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enfeoff, v.|ɛnˈfɛf|
Forms: α. 5 enfeffe, enfefe, 6 enfeoffe, 5– enfeoff. Also 5 enfeffee. β. 5–7 infeof(f, 6 infeffe, 7 infeft. Also 6 infeoffee. See also enfief.
[a. OF. enfeffer, enfieffer (AF. enfeoffer), f. en- (see en-1) + fief fief. In Anglo-Lat. infeoffāre.]
1. trans. To invest with a fief; to put (a person) in possession of the fee-simple or fee-tail of lands, tenements, etc. Also absol. Const. in, of, † on, later with; also simply.
α1400–50Alexander 2793 [Alexander] enfeffid þaim belyue, In palais, in prouince, in principall regnes. 1411Sir T. Langeford in E.E. Wills (1882) 18 Y pray alle ȝow þat bene enfeffeed in my londes..þat ȝe fulfylle my forseyd wylle. 1426E.E. Wills (1882) 71 Þay wolde enfeffe Philippe Dene on vj marces of rente. 1467Mann. & Househ. Exp. 172 Karowe and I withe oder waren enfefed in a howese and land. 1531Dial. Laws Eng. ii. xvi. (1638) 86 The grantor enfeoffeth the grantee of one of the said acres. 1590Greene Fr. Bacon x. 14, I will enfeoff fair Margaret in all. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. ix. (1632) 614 The Scottish King claimed that Country from King John, who by his deed enfeoffed him thereof. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. vi. §13 We..shall take such tenements into our hand, and shall enfeoffe others therein. 1785Burke Sp. Nabob Arcot's Debts Wks. IV. 308 A criminal..is..enfeoffed with an estate. 1818Cruise Digest I. 43 If the lord enfeoffs another of the tenancy, this makes the land frank fee. a1845Barham Ingol. Leg. (1877) 337 The veteran was enfeoffed in the lands and Manor. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. xiii. 433 Charles II..enfeoffed his brother, the Duke of York, with the counties between Pemaquid and the St. Croix.
β1491Act 7 Hen. VII, c. 12. §5 Tenementes whereof they by this Acte be infeoffed. 1590H. Swinburne Treat. Test. 93 If a man seased of lande in fee doe infeoffee a straunger. 1592Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 33 b, The sonne seeks the death of the father, that he may be infeoffed in his wealth. 1628Coke On Litt. 42 b, Whosoeuer is disabled by the Common Law to take, is disabled to infeoffe. 1640Canterburians Self-Conviction 99 They set up a rubricke, feafing and infefling the officiating Priest in the halfe of all the oblations. 1662Fuller Worthies Westmorl. iii. 141 Richard Gilpin..was infeoffed..in the Lordship of Kentmire-hall by the Baron of Kendal. 1752Carte Hist. Eng. III. 566 He should infeofe her in a jointure of 40,000 crowns a year out of the dutchy of Berry.
b. transf. and fig.
α1407Will. Thorpe's Exam. in Arb. Garner VI. 57 This office that ye would now enfeoff me with. 1460Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 64 For strengthe, ner force, may nat atteyne certayne a wille þat stant enfeffyd in Fraunchise. 1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 179 The Fathers of our earthly bodies..cannot..enfeofe vs in glory perpetuall. 1638Penit. Conf. viii. (1657) 247 The commodity is yours, for whose good we are enfeoffed with this power. 1834H. Miller Scenes & Leg. xvii. (1857) 251 The fish in which they had enfeoffed themselves at the expense of Nannie Fizzle.
βa1626Bp. Andrewes Serm. (1886) I. 43 To set before us this flesh; and..to infeoffe us in it. 1684Charnock Attrib. God (1834) II. 431 Infeoffing them in a land flowing with milk and honey.
2. To hand over as a fief; to surrender, give up entirely. fig.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 69 The skipping King..Enfeoff'd himselfe to Popularitie. 1610Histrio-m. v. 251 Hee that is most infeoft to Tyrannie. 1833H. Coleridge Poems I. 46 The choicest terms are now enfeoff'd to folly. 1880Blackmore Mary Anerley I. ii. 12 The weak lot which is enfeoffed to popularity. |