infeudation

Infeudation, in-fū-dā′shun, n. the putting of an estate in fee: the granting of tithes to laymen.

The infeudation of other things than land.

Infeudation, 106 f.; of other things than land, 115.

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.

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.