Meaning of infeoff | Babel Free

Definitions

Forma verbal. Verb. [B1]

Examples

“[I]n February 1648, in a letter to [Thomas] Fairfax's secretary, [Robert] Overton expresses pleasure that the king's servants have⟳ been removed and suggests that it would 'prove⟳ a happy privation if the Father would please⟳ to dispossess him of three transitory kingdoms to infeoff him in an eternal one'.”

“[H]e alleged farther that his predecessors had been infeft, at the Conquest, in the lands of Alfric son of Wisgar, who was Lord of that Hundred, as may be read⟳ in Domesday Book by all persons.”

“The deed by which a fee is brought into existence, or by which the superior authorizes a person to hold⟳ lands of him as his vassal, and entitles the vassal to be put⟳ in personal possession of such lands, is called a Feu-charter. It consists in general of the following clauses. [...] 10. Precept of Sasine, by which the superior empowers the vassal to be infeft.”

“… while a minor he received a dispensation and special license⟳ from the king, dated 8 Jan. 1608, upon which by a precept from chancery he was infeft in all the lands possessed by his father on 26, 27, 28 and 29 April.”

“Not only had a vassal to be infeft when a grant was made or confirmed: a successor had to be infeft when he took up his inheritance.”

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