Enfeoff

//ɛnˈfɛf//

Synonyms for "enfeoff" (40 found)

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Translations

11 translations across 8 languages.

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Catalan

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  • infeudar verb (to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest)

Chinese Mandarin

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  • 分封 verb (to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest)
  • 分茅 verb (to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest)

Dutch

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  • belenen verb (to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest)

Finnish

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  • läänittää verb (to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest)

French

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  • inféoder verb (to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest)

German

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  • belehnen verb (to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest)
  • investieren verb (to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest)

Polish

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  • nadawać lenno verb (to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest)
  • nadać lenno verb (to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest)

Spanish

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  • enfeudar verb (to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest)

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

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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 ousts me. Now here the action of covenant may not be brought, because he has at last enfeoffed me according to his covenant, and yet the deceit remains upon which an action may be based. Wherefore it does not always follow that where there is a covenant the action of deceit will not lie.

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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 fraunchese of Rypon, [...]

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And all this he [Pope Pius V] doth to enfeoff the pope with that fulness of power wherunto he entitleth Peter.

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If a man hath iſſue two Daughters and grant a Rent charge out of his land to one of them and dyeth the Rent ſhall be apportioned, and if the Grantee in this caſe enfeoffeth another of her part of the land, yet the moity of the Rent remaineth iſſuing out of her ſiſters part, becauſe the part of the Grantee in the land by the diſcent was diſcharged of the Rent.

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