enfeoff

• Verbe juridique historique signifiant attribuer à quelqu'un un fief ou une tenure féodale ; conférer le droit de détenir une terre en fief.

A historical legal verb meaning to give someone a fief or feudal estate; to invest with a freehold interest in land.

1. Grant land in feudal tenureC2formalbritish

   To invest someone with a freehold estate in land in exchange for a pledge of service or loyalty, as practiced in feudal society.

   Investir d'un fief

   • The king enfeoffed his loyal knight with vast estates in the north.
   • Under feudal law, the lord would enfeoff a vassal with land in return for military service.
   • The ceremony was held to formally enfeoff the baron with the manor.

   Synonymesconveyfeoffgrantinvest

   Antonymesdispossessdivest