infeudation
Britishnoun
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the act of putting a vassal in possession of a fief
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the deed conferring such possession
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the consequent relationship of lord and vassal
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the granting of tithes to laymen
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Infeudation, in-fū-dā′shun, n. the putting of an estate in fee: the granting of tithes to laymen.
From Project Gutenberg
The infeudation of other things than land.
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Infeudation, 106 f.; of other things than land, 115.
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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.
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The lord with his vassals, during the ninth and tenth centuries, may be considered as a patriarchal household, recruited, not as in the primitive times by Adoption, but by Infeudation; and to such a confederacy, succession by Primogeniture was a source of strength and durability.
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