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subinˈfeud, v.
[sub- 9 (b).]
1. trans. To grant (estates) by subinfeudation; in quot. absol.
1828J. Hunter More's Life Sir T. More Pref. p. xl, The two great houses of Newmarch and Fitzwilliam held Barnborough. Both subinfeuded.
2. To give (a person) possession of estates by subinfeudation.
1839Stonehouse Isle of Axholme 291 The Abbot of Newburgh was subinfeuded of a small manor in this parish.
So subˈinfeudate (occas. -en-) v. trans. = subinfeud 1; also fig.
1839Keightley Hist. Eng. I. 130 A vassal of the crown..might subenfeudate his lands, and have vassals bound to himself as he was to his superior lord. 1897Maitland Domesday Bk. & Beyond 100 Justice, we may say, was already being subinfeudated. |