The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enfeoffment \En*feoff"ment\, n. (Law)
The act of enfeoffing.
The instrument or deed by which one is invested with the fee of an estate.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context law common law English) The act or process of transferring possession and ownership of an estate in land. 2 (context law common law English) The property or estate so transferred. 3 (context law common law English) The instrument or deed by which one obtains such property or estate.
WordNet
n. under the feudal system, the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service
Usage examples of "enfeoffment".
They were to ask again for the enfeoffment of Adria while postponing its conquest and the march on Rome for three or four years.
After many delays and excuses, which kept Coucy and his colleagues in Avignon for three months, they succeeded in obtaining the document of enfeoffment, to be confirmed as a Bull only when the King of France and his brother had approved the conditions.
I confess, then, that nothing would have surprised me in your enfeoffment, or rather in that of your diocese, to M.