Also 5 enfeft-, 6 infeoff-, 8 enfeofment. [f. ENFEOFF + -MENT.] a. The action of enfeoffing. b. The deed or instrument by which a person is enfeoffed. c. The fief or estate, in quot. fig. d. The possession of a fief.
1460. Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866), 112. For the in paradyse I ordeynnyd A plase: fulle Ryche was thyn enfeftment.
1597. Daniel, Civ. Wares, VII. lxxxii. The King, as husband to the crown, doth by The wifes infeoffment hold.
1614. Selden, Titles Hon., 190. By their Charters, Enfeoffments, and Testaments recorded in old storie.
1762. trans. Busching’s Syst. Geog., VI. 166. Otho … invested the houses of Stolberg and Schwarzburg with the joint enfeoffment of it.
1769. Robertson, Chas. V., III. VII. 54. The Spanish ambassador would not be present at the solemnity of his enfeofment.
1839. Keightley, Hist. Eng., I. 239. That an enfeoffment to that effect might be executed.
