subinfeudatoryadj.n.

1811 J. L. Bozman Sketch Hist. Maryland Notes 385 The lord proprietor might have been enabled to grant baronies to hold of himself, but it would seem that the statute must have operated on the subinfeudatory grants of those barons.

1887 Sussex Archaeol. Coll. 35 26 A sub-infeudatory manor was a manor held of another manor, which in its turn was held in capite from the King.

1948 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 13 661/2 The group of ‘jotdar and zemindar’ is composed of the subinfeudatory landlords..and those landowning families which do not work on their land but let out the holdings for share-cropping.

1997 S. M. Taylor Anarchy of Stephen & Matilda (ed. 2) ix. 108 The King's Council, comprised of traveling justices sent throughout the shires to dispense the law, simultaneously reminding lesser lords of their subinfeudatory status.

2005 P. Barua State at War in S. Asia iii. 52 The leading sirdars established their own subinfeudatory domains.

1812 T. Harris & J. M'Henry Maryland Rep. 2 447 It..thus effectuated the subinfeudation, not by giving a right to the subinfeudatory, which was impracticable, but by repelling the right of the heir.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 298/2 At the time of the Conquest the manor was granted to Walter d'Eincourt, and in the 12th century it was divided among the three daughters of his subinfeudatory Paganus.

1902 Yorks. Archaeol. Jrnl. 16 159/2 The family of Wake by their arms,..show that they were originally either subinfeudatories or otherwise closely connected with the Colvilles.

2003 D. V. Smith Arts of Possession ii. 49 The end of the period in which the determinant of power was the number of sub-infeudatories rather than the ‘length of the rent-roll’.