Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Subinfeudate

ub. Hist. (Of a subvassal) to grant lands to another to hold as his vassal rather than his superior. - Also termed subinfeud (sab-in-fyood). "[A] more common method of obtaining the annual quota of knights was to subinfeudate portions of the baronial lands to individual knights in exchange for their obligations to spend a fixed portion of time annually in the king's or baron's service. A knight who so received a portion of a baron's land would hold of his baron in much the same way as the baron held of the king." Thomas F. Bergin & Paul G. Haskell, Preface to Estates in Land and Future Interests 4 (2d ed. 1984).