enfeoffment

His rights cannot be established by possession from time immemorial, nor by innumerable and regular acquittances; he must produce the act of enfeoffment which is many centuries old, the lease which has never, perhaps, been written out, the primitive title already rare in 1720, [2229] and since stolen or burnt in the recent jacqueries: otherwise he is despoiled without indemnity.

The French Revolution - Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860

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

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Dowager, nor shall any member of the clans of the imperial consorts be appointed regents [during the minority of young emperors], nor shall they be given enfeoffment without due merit.

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In the case of princely houses, he would draw up treaties, record edicts, and draft the documents which granted feudal enfeoffment.

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But in a few months he issued an edict making this enfeoffment.

The History of the Former Han Dynasty 1955

When Wang Chia1a opposed this proposed enfeoffment. he was removed and finally executed.

The History of the Former Han Dynasty 1955

Shun4b, who had seconded and guided [the Emperor before he was appointed] and had been his former benefactor, there was added to his enfeoffment [the income of] five hundred households.

The History of the Former Han Dynasty 1955

There can be little doubt that the principle on which he claims enfeoffment in the estate is a sound one, that the earth belongs in no case to the sons of

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

Lord paramount over the empire of mind as well as matter, he alone is seized, in fee simple right, of the whole domain: provinces of which men hold, as fiefs, by vassal tenure, subject to reversion and enfeoffment to another.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

At first it seems to have been confined to the enfeoffment of the emperor's sons, but later it was extended to other important matters, so that the standard practise in enacting an administrative measure, even the appointment of an Empress, came to be that some official or group would memorialize the Emperor concerning what they thought should be done, and the Emperor approved the suggestion.

The History of the Former Han Dynasty 1938