infeoff

English

Verb

infeoff (third-person singular simple present infeoffs, present participle infeoffing, simple past and past participle infeoffed or infeft)

  1. Alternative form of enfeoff To put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest; to transfer a fief to.
    • 1980, Ann Morton, Gordon Donaldson, British National Archives and the Local Historian‎, Digitized edition, Historical Association, published 2008:
      Not only had a vassal to be infeft when a grant was made or confirmed: a successor had to be infeft when he took up his inheritance.
    • 2007, Ian Gentles, John Morrill, Blair Worden, quoting Robert Overton, 1648, Soldiers, Writers and Statesmen of the English Revolution‎, Cambridge Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 289:
      … Overton expresses pleasure that the king's servants have been removed and suggests that it would 'prove a happy privation if the Father would please to dispossess him of three transitory kingdoms to infeoff him in an eternal one'.

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for infeoff in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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