Definition of Enfeoffment

1. Noun. Under the feudal system, the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service.

Generic synonyms: Deed, Deed Of Conveyance, Title
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Enfeoff

Definition of Enfeoffment

1. n. The act of enfeoffing.

Definition of Enfeoffment

1. [n -S]

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Enfeoffment

enfant terrible
enfeeble
enfeebled
enfeeblement
enfeeblements
enfeebler
enfeeblers
enfeebles
enfeebling
enfelon
enfeloned
enfelons
enfeoff
enfeoffed
enfeoffing
enfeoffment (current term)
enfeoffments
enfeoffs
enfested
enfetter
enfettered
enfettering
enfetters
enfever
enfevered
enfevering
enfevers
enfierce
enfierced
enfierces

Literary usage of Enfeoffment

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1. The History of the County of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth Century by Hubert Thomas Knox (1908)
"CHAPTER XL enfeoffment AND COLONISATION. THE partition of Connaught has been dealt with in articles in volumes xxxi., xxxii., xxxiii. of the Journal of the ..."

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