Enfeoff

Quick meaning: Enfeoff is a verb meaning (transitive, figuratively) To give up completely; to surrender, to yield.

Meaning

(transitive, figuratively) To give up completely; to surrender, to yield.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, chiefly law, historical) To transfer a fief to, to endow with a fief; to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest.

Example Sentences

And all this he [Pope Pius V] doth to enfeoff the pope with that fulness of power wherunto he entitleth Peter.

And if a Man doth bargain with another to enfeoff him of certain Lands, and afterwards he enfeoffeth another Man, he with whom he made the Bargain, ſhall have a Writ of Diſceit.

I have infeffed Richarde Pygot, sarjeaunt of the lawe, John Norton, knyght, John Pygott of Rypon, gentilman, and Sir Thomas Nobull, prest, in lands and tenements within the fraunchese of Rypon, [...]

There paſſes this Seal alſo a Precept, which is called the Fourth Precept, directed to a Sheriff in that Part, for infefting in Lands holden of a ſubject Superior, after the three Precepts are run againſt him.

Word Forms

• enfeoffs
• enfeoffes
• enfeoffing
• enfeoffed
• enfeoffest
• enfeoffedst
• enfeoffeth

Synonyms for enfeoff

Depending on context, synonyms include cede.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include infeoff, refeoff, begift, infranchise, franchise, enfranchize.

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