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

Roget 783: transfer, conveyance, assignment, alienation, abalienation^†; demise, limitation; conveyancing^†; transmission etc. (transference) 270; enfeoffment^†, bargain and sale, lease and release; exchange etc. (interchange) 148; barter etc. 794; substitution etc. 147.    succession, reversion; shifting use, shifting trust; devolution.    ... show more