subinfeudation
Americannoun
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the granting of a portion of an estate by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, held from the tenant on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant.
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the tenure established.
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the estate or fief so created.
noun
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(in feudal society) the granting of land by a vassal to another man who became his vassal
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the tenure or relationship so established
Etymology
Origin of subinfeudation
1720–30; sub- + infeudation enfeoffment < Medieval Latin infeudātiōn-, s. of infeudātiō ( see in- 2, feud 2, -ation)
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“And Lorren asked about the influence of subinfeudation on Modegan currency. Kilvin had to translate. Even then I could not answer.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
They were included, so far as he was concerned, in their superiors; and the feudal incidents were due to him from the whole of his vassal's fief, whatever tenants might possess it by subinfeudation.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
This curtailed the advantage of tenants of the greater barons who profited by increased wardships and reliefs from subinfeudation from subdivision and better cultivation of their land while still paying the greater barons fixed sums.
From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by S. A. Reilly
This prohibition of further subinfeudation stopped the creation of new manors and prevented the rivetting of new links in the feudal chain, which were the necessary condition of its strength.
From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by William Hunt
In later times this feudal distribution of estates had greatly increased as the bulk of the nobles followed the king's example and bound their tenants to themselves by a similar process of subinfeudation.
From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by John Richard Green
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