v. [SUB- 9 (b).]
1. trans. To grant (estates) by subinfeudation; in quot. absol.
1838. J. Hunter, More’s Life Sir T. More, Pref. xl. The two great houses of Newmarch and Fitzwilliam held Barnborough. Both subinfeuded.
2. To give (a person) possession of estates by subinfeudation.
1839. Stonehouse, Isle of Axholme, 291. The Abbot of Newburgh was subinfeuded of a small manor in this parish.
So Subinfeudate (occas. -en-) v. trans. = SUBINFEUD 1; also fig.
1839. Keightley, Hist. Eng., I. 130. A vassal of the crown … might subenfeudate his lands, and have vassals bound to himself as he was to his superior lord.
1897. Maitland, Domesday & Beyond, 100. Justice, we may say, was already being subinfeudated.
