单词 | enfeoffment |
释义 | enfeoffmentn. a. The action of enfeoffing. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [noun] > feoffment or feuing feoffmentc1330 infeftment1456 infeudation1473 feuing1596 enfeoffment1769 infeft1893 1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V III. vii. 54 The Spanish ambassador would not be present at the solemnity of his enfeofment. b. The deed or instrument by which a person is enfeoffed. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > charter or deed conveying property > [noun] > charter or deed conveying land > deed of enfeoffment feoffment1377 deed of feoffment1545 enfeoffment1614 infeudation1647 feu-chartera1768 feu-contracta1859 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 190 By their Charters, Enfeoffments, and Testaments recorded in old storie. 1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. 238 That an enfeoffment to that effect might be executed. c. The fief or estate, in quot. figurative. ΚΠ 1460 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 112 For the in paradyse I ordeynnyd A plase: fulle Ryche was thyn enfeftment. d. The possession of a fief. ΚΠ 1601 S. Daniel Ciuill Warres (rev. ed.) vi. lxxxiii. f. 93v, in Wks. The King as husband to the Crowne, doth by The wiues infeofment hold. 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. VI. 166 Otho..invested the houses of Stolberg and Schwarzburg with the joint enfeoffment of it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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