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enfeoff

enfeoff [Anglo-French enfeoffer, from Old French en-, causative prefix + fief

enfeoffment 1 : the act of enfeoffing 2 : the instrument

Enfeoffment, the act of investing with any dignity or possession; also

feoff [Anglo-French feoffer, from fie fief fief] : enfeoff

infeudation [Medieval Latin infeudatio, from infeudare to enfeoff, from in- in + feudum feoff] : enfeoffment

To give a feud or right in land to to invest with a fief or fee to invest any one...

feud to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to to enfeoff

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or devise to each other, much less exchange with or enfeoff one another; the proper mode of assurance from one joint-tenant

The act of enfeoffing