infeudation

As though the infeudation to which Skiljan and Gerrien had appealed for protection was at best a story with which the silth of the packfast justified their robberies to packs supposedly beholden to them.

Doomstalker Cook, Glen 1985

It was a scheme of James the Second to abolish this system of infeudation, by buying up the superiorities, -- a plan, the completion of which was attempted by William the Third, but defeated by the avarice and dishonesty of those who managed the transaction.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

[Sidenote: The infeudation of other things than land.]

An Introduction to the History of Western Europe James Harvey Robinson 1899

It has been less satisfactory to the tenants with inferior and infinitely subdivided interests who have shared very little in the increased wealth of their superior landlords, and nowhere else has sub-infeudation been carried to such extravagant lengths.

India, Old and New Valentine Chirol 1890

It was to meet this difficulty, and to check the prevailing sub - division of land -- _sub-infeudation_ men called it then -- that the statute of _Quia Emptores_ was passed in the eighteenth year of

The Coming of the Friars Augustus Jessopp 1868

In = 1290 =, by another statute, _Quia emptores_, he forbade all new sub-infeudation.

A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865

The tenures created during this era of universal infeudation were as various as the conditions which the tenants made with their new chiefs or were forced to accept from them.

Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855

The relation of the lord to the vassals had originally been settled by express engagement, and a person wishing to engraft himself on the brotherhood by _commendation_ or _infeudation_ came to a distinct understanding as to the conditions on which he was to be admitted.

Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855

The lord had many of the characteristics of a patriarchal chieftain, but his prerogative was limited by a variety of settled customs traceable to the express conditions which had been agreed upon when the infeudation took place.

Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855

He was bound to distribute the bulk of his estates in fiefs among his knights, so that a complete system of sub-infeudation was established.

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 William Hickling Prescott 1827