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What does enfeoff mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest; to transfer a fief to.
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We have been ready to enfeoff you at all times since the execution of the deed, and still are ready.
Throughout these years the crown, the churches, and the lay lords had to enfeoff more and more ministeriales in order to raise mounted warriors for their forces.
Words are to be taken to enfeoff the Plaintiff if he is alive, and if he dies, then to enfeoff his Heirs, and therefore the Defendant was driven to answer to the Count.
We discard the archaic rule that one cannot enfeoff oneself.
He prays his feoffees nevertheless to do his will, that is to enfeoff the heir of his body if he has one, but if not to enfeoff his right heirs of Higham Ferrers.
If the condition were to enfeoff the obligee of all his lands in the county, in an action of debt he could say that he had no land within the same county.

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