But in a few months he issued an edict making this enfeoffment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Former Han Dynasty] Reference

When Wang Chia1a opposed this proposed enfeoffment. he was removed and finally executed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Former Han Dynasty] Reference

Under the feudal system, enfeoffment was the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service.    From Wordnik.com.  [Should the President be working harder?] Reference

In the case of princely houses, he would draw up treaties, record edicts, and draft the documents which granted feudal enfeoffment.    From Wordnik.com.  [HISTORIOGRAPHY] Reference

There can be little doubt that the principle on which he claims enfeoffment in the estate is a sound one, that the earth belongs in no case to the sons of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference

Lord paramount over the empire of mind as well as matter, he alone is seized, in fee simple right, of the whole domain: provinces of which men hold, as fiefs, by vassal tenure, subject to reversion and enfeoffment to another.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference

It is certainly prior to, more primitive than, the notion of a landed enfeoffment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

I confess, then, that nothing would have surprised me in your enfeoffment, or rather in that of your diocese, to M. Fouquet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicomte De Bragelonne] Reference

Territorial enfeoffment did not do away with vassalage, but only changed the medium by which that vassalage was made evident.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

As to the historical theory of imperial enfeoffment, the States thought it more delicate to glide smoothly and silently over the whole matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Assembly Chamber decided what enfeoffment and dependancies had belonged to the newly acquired district, and confiscated a considerable number owing to the frivolous Assembly quarrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

As such, the grantee at his enfeoffment did homage to his overlord, took an oath of fealty, and made offering of the prescribed money or other object, by reason of which he held his fief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

This enfeoffment of the lord or landowner by the king and of the dependent by the lord was partly in the nature of a reward for past services, partly in the nature of an earnest for the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

"Tribute of Yii" says nothing of the supposed Western emigration of the Chinese -- Some traditions of Chinese migrations from the south -- Traditions of enfeoffment of vassals in Corea, about 1122.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient China Simplified] Reference

Pius V (29 Mar., 1567) decreed that, in future, fiefs belonging strictly to the Patrimony of St. Peter should be incorporated with the Pontifical States whenever the vassalage lapsed, and that no new enfeoffment take place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

And I have had of you since then neither the enfeoffment nor the lady, but only excuses, Sire Philippe. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Chivalry] Reference

114 B.C. HS 53: 19a goes on to quote an imperial edict dated several months after that dismissal, which orders the enfeoffment of Liu P'ing and Liu Shang as Kings of Chen-ting and Szu-shui, respectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Former Han Dynasty] Reference

These ceremonies encompassed: the sacrificial rites performed at ancestral temples to express humility and thankfulness; the ceremonies of enfeoffment, toasting, and gift exchange that bound together the aristocracy into a complex web of obligation and indebtedness; and the acts of politeness and decorum ” such things as bowing and yielding ” that identified their performers as gentlemen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confucius] Reference

Let his enfeoffment be increased.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Former Han Dynasty] Reference

(1) The territorial element is the grant of the enfeoffment by the lord to his man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference