单词 | re-enfeoff |
释义 | re-enfeoffv. Feudal Law. Now historical. transitive. To reinstall (a person) in possession of a freehold or fief in exchange for pledged homage and service; to return a freehold or fief to (the original freeholder). Also with land or property as object. Also intransitive: to return or reclaim a freehold or fief. See fee n.2 1a, feoffment n. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [verb (transitive)] > grant as fief > invest with fief > again or in return re-enfeoff1394 refeoff1439 1394 in Collectanea Topographica & Genealogica (1836) III. 256 (MED) We..tho..reenfeffide the forsaid Sir Guy..in the forsaid Manere. 1540 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 256 Who, soe being seised, shall re-enfeoffe the said seaven who shall survive. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 208 b If the Condition be, That the Feoffee shall re-infeoffe the Feoffor [etc.]. 1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. iii. §241. 107 If my Feoffee in Fee of one Acre of Land, doe reinfeoff mee of the same acre by deed. 1762 J. Comyns Digest Laws Eng. I. 23 The Defendant, being enfeoffed upon Condition to re-enfeoff, &c., by Collusion between him and R made a Recognizance to R before the Re-enfeoffment. 1765 Act 5 Geo. III c. 26 Preamble With power also to the surviving trustees..to re-enfeoff other trustees to the same uses. 1795 W. Cruise Ess. on Uses i. 13 It was enacted, that he should re-enfeoff Lord Clynton. 1816 T. Reeve Law Baron & Femme viii. 115 If a femme covert convey her real estate to another, upon condition that the feoffee re-enfeoff her when she demands it. 1828 R. Preston Elem. Treat. Estates I. iv. 470 There will be a possibility of reversion in those who re-enfeoff. 1865 F. M. Nichols in tr. Britton II. 209 (note) It was not uncommon for a layman to enfeoff a church on condition of being reenfeoffed to hold of the church. 1938 G. Barraclough tr. H. Mitteis in Mediaeval Germany, 911–1250 II. 254 The others [sc. banners] were the symbol for the power to re-enfeoff which the holder of a ‘banner fief’ possessed. 1984 Speculum 59 i. 59 By reason of this contract Lapegrut enfeoffed the brother of the three acres so that he could re-enfeoff them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1394 |
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