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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The practice by which tenants, holding land under the king or other superior lord, carved out new and distinct tenures in their turn by subletting or alienating a part of their lands. UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable

Etymology

From sub- + infeudation.

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