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
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
Literary usage of Enfeoffment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
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 ..."


