enfeoffmentn.
/ɛnˈfɛfmənt/ a. The action of enfeoffing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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