Alternative form of enfeoff To put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest; to transfer a fief to.
1980 , Ann Morton, Gordon Donaldson , British National Archives and the Local Historian Chapter , Not only had a vassal to be infeft when a grant was made or confirmed: a successor had to be infeft when he took up his inheritance.
2007 , Ian Gentles, John Morrill, Blair Worden , Soldiers, Writers and Statesmen of the English Revolution Chapter , … Overton expresses pleasure that the king's servants have been removed and suggests that it would 'prove a happy privation if the Father would please to dispossess him of three transitory kingdoms to infeoff him in an eternal one'.
