subinfeudate

subinfeudate (s[schwa]b-in-fyoo-dayt), vb. Hist. (Of a subvassal) to grant land to another, who then holds the land as the grantor’s vassal rather than as the vassal of the grantor’s superior.

— Also termed subinfeud (s[schwa]b-in-fyood).

“[A] more common method of obtaining the annual quota of knights was to subinfeudate portions of the baronial lands to individual knights in exchange for their obligations to spend a fixed portion of time annually in the king’s or baron’s service. A knight who so received a portion of a baron’s land would hold of his baron in much the same way as the baron held of the king.” Thomas F. Bergin & Paul G. Haskell, Preface to Estates in Land and Future Interests 4 (2d ed. 1984).

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资深译员Gianluca，毕业于亚洲顶尖的高级翻译学院，专注翻译各种与清洁与可再生能源有关的法律文件。