enfeoff

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ENFEOFF, verb transitive enfeff'. [Law Latin feaffo, feoffare, from fief, which see.] 1. To give one a feud; hence, to invest with a fee; to give to another any corporeal hereditament, in fee simple or fee tail, by livery of seizin. 2. To surrender or give up. [Not used.]
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