infeft
English
Verb
infeft (third-person singular simple present infefts, present participle infefting, simple past and past participle infefted)
- Obsolete form of enfeoff.
Verb
infeft
- past participle of infeoff
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, chapter XII, The Abbot’s Troubles
- he alleged farther that his predecessors had been infeft, at the Conquest, in the lands of Alfric son of Wisgar, who was Lord of that Hundred, as may be read in Domesday Book by all persons.
- 1885, Dictionary of National Biography, Robert Monro
- […] while a minor he received a dispensation and special license from the king, dated 8 Jan. 1608, upon which by a precept from chancery he was infeft in all the lands possessed by his father on 26, 27, 28 and 29 April.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, chapter XII, The Abbot’s Troubles
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