Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete forms of
enfeoffment .
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- noun (Law) See
enfeoffment .
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- noun Archaic form of
enfeoffment .
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Nothing definite is known of what transpired in this principality subsequently to the infeoffment of 1106 B.C., and prior to the events of 771 B.C., at which latter date the ruling prince, hearing of the disaster to his kinsman the Emperor, went to meet that monarch's fugitive successor, and escorted him eastwards to his new capital.
Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887
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The official name of the region after the Chou infeoffment of 1106 B.C. was the
Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887
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B.C., nothing much beyond the fact of the Chou infeoffment is recorded; but after the Emperor had been killed by the Tartar -
Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887
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This appointment, asalfothevery wordsofthedeed of the infeoffment, (ftill extant) in which the con - veyance is to the bifhop abfolute and unconditional, confute a report too haftily taken up by fome hif - torians, that this caftle and barony were only given to the bifhop in truft for William the baftard above -
A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... 1778
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