infeudation

infeudation (in-fyoo-day-sh[schwa]n), n. Under the feudal system of landholding, the process of giving a person legal possession of land; ENFEOFFMENT(1). Cf. SUBINFEUDATION. — infeudate, vb.

“So thorough was the process by which the land of England became subject to fixed obligations to the king — the process generally referred to today as the infeudation of England — that by the time of the famous Domesday survey, a scant twenty years after Hastings, it was possible to assign to almost every rock and stone of English soil its precise duty to the Crown.” Thomas F. Bergin & Paul G. Haskell, Preface to Estates in Land and Future Interests 3 (2d ed. 1984).


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