Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Subinfeudation
n. Hist. The system under which the tenants in a feudal system granted smaller estates to their tenants, who in turn did the same from their pieces of land. Cf, INFEUDATION; SUPERINFEUDATION.
Superinfeudation
Hist. The granting of one or more feuds out of a feudal estate. - Also termed superfeudation. Cf. SUBINFEUDATION. "Whatever may be the proper view of its origin and legal nature, the best mode of vividly picturing to ourselves the feudal organisation is to begin with the basis, to consider the relation of the tenant to the patch of soil which created and limited his services - and then to mount up, through narrowing circles of super-feudation, till we approximate to the apex of the system." Henry S. Maine, Ancient Law 88 (17th ed. 1901).
infeudation
n. Under the feudal system of landholding, the process of giving a person legal possession of land; ENFEOFFMENT (1). - infeudate, vb. CC SUBINFEUDATION.