English

Verb

infeoff ‎(third-person singular simple present infeoffs, present participle infeoffing, simple past and past participle infeoffed or infeft)

1. Alternative form of enfeoff To put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest; to transfer a fief to.

   • 1980, Ann Morton, Gordon Donaldson, British National Archives and the Local Historian, Digitized edition, Historical Association, published 2008:

     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.

   • 2007, Ian Gentles, John Morrill, Blair Worden, quoting Robert Overton, 1648, Soldiers, Writers and Statesmen of the English Revolution, Cambridge Univ. Press, ISBN 9780521038751, page 289:

     … 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'.

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