Definition of Enfeff
En*feoff" (?; see Feoff, 277), v.
t. [imp. & p. p. Enfeoffed (?);
p. pr. & vb. n. Enfeoffing.] [Pref. en-
+ feoff, fief: cf. LL. infeofare, OF.
enfeffer, enfeofer.] 1. (Law)
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. Mozley & W.
2. To give in vassalage; to make
subservient. [Obs.]
[The king] enfeoffed himself to
popularity. Shak.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- To put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest; to transer a fief to.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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