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Enfeoffment

noun
1.
Under the feudal system, the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service.





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... financially by reason of his wars and journeyings had borrowed some four hundred thousand gold florins from Frederick, and it was in settlement of this debt that he mortgaged the territory of Brandenburg, and on the 8th of April, 1417, the ceremony of enfeoffment was performed at Constance, by which the House of Hohenzollern became possessed of this territory, and was thereafter included among the great electorates having a vote in the election of the Emperor of the Holy ...
— Germany and the Germans - From an American Point of View (1913) • Price Collier


Words linked to "Enfeoffment" :   deed of conveyance, title, law, jurisprudence, deed, enfeoff


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