Definition of Enfeoff. Meaning of Enfeoff. Synonyms of Enfeoff

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Definition of Enfeoff

Enfeoff
Enfeoff En*feoff" (?; see Feoff, 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enfeoffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Enfeoffing.] [Pref. en- + feoff, fief: cf. LL. infeofare, OF. enfeffer, enfeofer.] 1. (Law) To give a feud, or right in land, to; to invest with a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment. --Mozley & W. 2. To give in vassalage; to make subservient. [Obs.] [The king] enfeoffed himself to popularity. --Shak.

Meaning of Enfeoff from wikipedia

- the feoffee sub-enfeoffed his holding, for example when he created a new manor, he would become overlord to the person so enfeoffed, and a mesne lord...
- power to grant noble titles and to enfeoff v****als. It was a custom in China for the new dynasty to ennoble and enfeoff a member of the dynasty which they...
- Dietrich IV of Limburg Hohenlimburg, born around 1375, was the second son Diederik III count of Limburg Hohenlimburg and Broich and Lukardis of Broich...
- plateau that included the territory of Liechtenstein. This region was enfeoffed to the Counts of Hohenems until the sale to the Liechtenstein dynasty...
- own use, occupation, or support. This distinguished it from land sub-enfeoffed by him to others as sub-tenants. In contrast, the entire territory controlled...
- 1851. After capturing Hangzhou from the Taiping rebels in 1864, he was enfeoffed as a first class count. In 1866, Zuo oversaw the construction of the Foochow...
- Fa's son, Dang became the Marquis of Jurong. As he died soon, the lands enfeoffed to him became Jurong county in the next year. Jurong was under the jurisdiction...
- royal family during the Zhou dynasty c. 8th to 5th centuries BCE) who was enfeoffed in the state of Yang. The German sociologist Wolfram Eberhard calls Yang...
- united. After his death in 947, however, King Otto I the Great did not enfeoff Berthold's minor son Henry the Younger with his duchy, but instead gave...
- placate his prominent commanders from the war with Chu, Emperor Gaozu enfeoffed some of them as kings. By 196, the Han court had replaced all of these...