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 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.

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.