subinfeudv.
/ˌsʌbɪnˈfjuːd/, U.S. /ˌsəbɪnˈfjud/ Feudal Law. Now historical.
1. transitive. To grant (land) by subinfeudation. Also intransitive.
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society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [verb (transitive)] > grant as fief > grant by subinfeudation
subinfeudate1669
subfeu1687
subinfeud1772
subenfeoff1831
sub-fief1903
1772 F. S. Sullivan Hist. Treat. Feudal Law xv. 161 Though it was intended, at first, only to extend to part of the vassal's fief, the usage of subinfeuding the whole, gained ground, to the great prejudice of the heirs.
1789 Templar 1 102 The Scotch Barons, although they would not allow their vassals to subinfeud, yet when they sold their own lands, they would not suffer the crown to appropriate the tenure.
1828 J. Hunter More's Life Sir T. More Pref. p. xl The two great houses of Newmarch and Fitzwilliam held Barnborough. Both subinfeuded.
1879 Yorks. Archeol. & Topogr. Jrnl. 5 315 Some 180 manors..obtained by the count, and then subinfeuded by him to Nigel and Richard.
1902 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 34 662 Besides these five manors the Giffards also held, as mesne lords, other manors which had been subinfeuded.
1989 M. Harris & G. Harris Ancestry's Conc. Geneal. Dict. 205 Tenants-in-capite: a person holding feudal land directly from the king,..who would in turn subinfeud to other tenants.
1996 N. Vincent P. Des Roches 320 William Marshal II had held the manor of Upper Clatford prior to his death in 1231 and had subinfeuded it to his own tenants.
2. transitive. To give (a person) possession of land by subinfeudation.
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society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [verb (transitive)] > grant as fief > grant by subinfeudation > invest with by subinfeudation
subinfeud1835
1835 Penny Cycl. III. 487/1 The Earl of Chester is said to have thus subinfeuded only eight persons in the vast extent of territory which the Conqueror granted to him.
1845 D. Gurney Rec. House of Gournay Pref. i. 5 Being themselves the capital tenants under the dukes of Normandy, they subenfeuded..their relations and dependents.
1870 J. H. Aveling Yorks.: Hist. Roche Abbey p. xxi Shortly, however, after that date, it appears that Roger subinfeuded his brother Ernaldus here.
1910 Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica (2001) 4th ser. 3 366 Which younger branch of the de Buslis afterwards subinfeuded another person, who, after a few years residence there, acquired and continued the name of de Scawsby.
2009 A. Wright Hoax! vii. 71 Some chief tenants could not (or would not) remember who was subinfeuded to them, even though the revenues from their tenants were certainly recorded.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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