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n. - Under the feudal system, the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service.

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  • But in a few months he issued an edict making this enfeoffment.
  • When Wang Chia1a opposed this proposed enfeoffment. he was removed and finally executed.
  • Under the feudal system, enfeoffment was the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service.
  • In the case of princely houses, he would draw up treaties, record edicts, and draft the documents which granted feudal enfeoffment.
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