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 […]