I confess, then, that nothing would have surprised me in your enfeoffment, or rather in that of your diocese, to M.

The enfeoffment of the Jin nobles by the Zhou king was interpreted by Sima Guang [phrase omitted] (1019-1086) as the end of the ritually mandated order of the Zhou era (see Zizhi tongjian [phrase omitted] [Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1992], 1.1-6).

As a result, the former zone or regional boundaries were gradually replaced with linear boundaries, which from the 14th to 15th centuries were fixed by feudal enfeoffment letters and purchase-and-sale agreements.

The use was a form of land trust that "entailed the transfer of legal title (enfeoffment) to a person who was to hold the property (the feoffee to uses) for the benefit of another (the cestui que use)." (47) Fiduciary concepts were subsequently developed and extended by courts of equity that supervised trust and "quasi-trust" relationships.

"enfeoffment of livery of seisin" precisely because this

According to a report drawn up by the latter two, Taube and Kruse announced that Ivan the Terrible was not going to tolerate the presence of Swedes and Poles in Livonia, and to avoid the ensuing bloodshed the Tsar was proposing the enfeoffment of the Tartu Bishopric to Magnus, the Danish Crown designated as the beneficiary after Magnus' death; the Duke would also be granted possession of other territories conquered by Russians, over which the Tsar would retain his hereditary rights and the prerogative to offer protection.