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Enfeoffment

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Enfeoffment, the act of investing with any dignity or possession; also the instrument or deed by which a person is invested with possessions.

At Common Law, the act or process of transfers of possession and ownership of an estate in land, Black's Law Dictionary, p. 549.

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