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Definition of Subinfeudation
1. n. The granting of lands by inferior lords to their dependents, to be held by themselves by feudal tenure.
Definition of Subinfeudation
1. Noun. (UK legal obsolete) The practice by which tenants, holding land under the king or other superior lord, carved out new and distinct tenures in their turn by subletting or alienating a part of their lands. ¹
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Definition of Subinfeudation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subinfeudation
Literary usage of Subinfeudation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Land Laws: Being an Account of Their History, Present Features by Samuel Moss (1886)
"(b) subinfeudation was the second essential element of Feudalism. The king (in
England) was ... This process of sub-letting was termed subinfeudation. ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"subinfeudation.—These were the principal, and very simple, qualities of the
genuine or original feuds: which were all of a military nature, ..."
3. A Summary of the Law and Practice of Real Actions: With an Appendix of by Asahel Stearns (1831)
"The practice of subinfeudation, which seems to have commenced in England about
the beginning of the reign of Henry III. occasioned considerable alteration ..."
4. The Rise and Progress of the English Constitution by Edward Shepherd Creasy (1853)
"—Progress of " subinfeudation."—Aristocratic Character of Feudalism.—Its
Oppressiveness to the Commonalty.—Its brighter Features. IN order to understand the ..."
5. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"... to protect the baronage against the undermining influence of subinfeudation,
than it is certain that the practical effect of that act was to advance the ..."
6. English Economic History: Select Documents edited by Alfred Edward Bland (1919)
"... land for the aforesaid service,3 it would not be to the damage of the lord
the King nor to the injury of the manor aforesaid. 9. subinfeudation [Rotuli ..."
7. A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History by Dudley Julius Medley (1902)
"The commoner form of alienation would be by (2) subinfeudation, or grant of a
portion of the estate to be held of the grantor. ..."
8. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth (1914)
"In the Magna Charta the barons inserted a clause to the effect that no subinfeudation
should be allowed unless the tenant retained enough property in his ..."
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