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Definition of Enfeoff
1. Verb. Put in possession of land in exchange for a pledge of service, in feudal society. "He enfeoffed his son-in-law with a large estate in Scotland"
Definition of Enfeoff
1. v. t. To give a feud, or right in land, to; to invest with a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment.
Definition of Enfeoff
1. Verb. (transitive) To put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest; to transfer a fief to. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enfeoff
1. to invest with a feudal estate [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enfeoff
Literary usage of Enfeoff
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Some Cases Adjudged in the Courts of the Lord Chancellor, Master by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Charles Purton Cooper (1841)
"case for refusal • iJ Newton [JCP] If I sell twenty-four acres of land for
201., although I do not enfeoff him [the buyer], ..."
2. The Doctor and Student: Or, Dialogues Between a Doctor of Divinity and a by Christopher Saint German, William Muchall (1874)
"XXIV.— 1he fourth question of the student. Stud. If a man enfeoff other in certain
land ... that if he enfeoff any other, that it may be lawful for the ..."
3. Reports of Sir George Croke, Knight: Formerly One of the Justices of the by George Croke, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Harbottle Grimston, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Thomas Leach (1790)
"746- But ANDERSON and WALMSLEY denied it ; for there was not any intent to enfeoff
the attorney, ..."
4. Records of the Borough of Nottingham: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Nottingham (England). (1883)
"... when it so happens, two such feoffees enfeoff seven or eight other trusty
persons in the said messuage and garden to and for the intent aforesaid. 4515. ..."
5. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of by Cambridge University Library (1856)
"To William de Gournay, to enfeoff Sir William de Beauchamp, of Warwick, ...
To William Vavasour, to enfeoff Henry Muls and Robert de ..."
6. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of by Cambridge University Library (1856)
"To William de Gournay, to enfeoff Sir William de Beauchamp, of Warwick, ...
To William Vavasour, to enfeoff Henry Muls and Robert de ..."
7. The Commentaries, Or Reports of Edmund Plowden: ... Containing Divers Cases by Edmund Plowden (1816)
"And and the Plaintiff declared that the Defendant came to his Aunt, î^^^"^ and
that he (the Plaintiff) required him to enfeoff him, and he did •words^andj ..."
8. Reports of Some Cases Adjudged in the Courts of the Lord Chancellor, Master by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Charles Purton Cooper (1841)
"case for refusal • iJ Newton [JCP] If I sell twenty-four acres of land for
201., although I do not enfeoff him [the buyer], ..."
9. The Doctor and Student: Or, Dialogues Between a Doctor of Divinity and a by Christopher Saint German, William Muchall (1874)
"XXIV.— 1he fourth question of the student. Stud. If a man enfeoff other in certain
land ... that if he enfeoff any other, that it may be lawful for the ..."
10. Reports of Sir George Croke, Knight: Formerly One of the Justices of the by George Croke, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Harbottle Grimston, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Thomas Leach (1790)
"746- But ANDERSON and WALMSLEY denied it ; for there was not any intent to enfeoff
the attorney, ..."
11. Records of the Borough of Nottingham: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Nottingham (England). (1883)
"... when it so happens, two such feoffees enfeoff seven or eight other trusty
persons in the said messuage and garden to and for the intent aforesaid. 4515. ..."
12. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of by Cambridge University Library (1856)
"To William de Gournay, to enfeoff Sir William de Beauchamp, of Warwick, ...
To William Vavasour, to enfeoff Henry Muls and Robert de ..."
13. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of by Cambridge University Library (1856)
"To William de Gournay, to enfeoff Sir William de Beauchamp, of Warwick, ...
To William Vavasour, to enfeoff Henry Muls and Robert de ..."
14. The Commentaries, Or Reports of Edmund Plowden: ... Containing Divers Cases by Edmund Plowden (1816)
"And and the Plaintiff declared that the Defendant came to his Aunt, î^^^"^ and
that he (the Plaintiff) required him to enfeoff him, and he did •words^andj ..."
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