Meanings (ES + gloss)
enfeudar
To transfer a fief to, to endow with a fief; to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest.
I have infeffed Richarde Pygot, sarjeaunt of the lawe, John Norton, knyght, John Pygott of Rypon, gentilman, and Sir Thomas Nobull, prest, in lands and tenements within the fraunch…
Suppose a man bargains to enfeoff me, as in our case here, and he afterwards enfeoffs another, and then he re-enters [i.e. on the first feoffee] and enfeoffs me, and the other oust…
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