Subinfeudation

Subinfeudation:
The process whereby, under the feudal system of tenure, a person receiving a grant of land from a lord, could himself become a lord by subdividing and subletting that land to others.

Subinfeudation
The feudal system of tenure, whereby a person receiving a grant of land from a lord, could himself become a lord by subdividing and subletting that land to others.

Expanded Legal Definition of PropertyQuia Emptores A 1290 English statute that held that notwithstanding the subdivision (subinfeudation) of a feeholding; the new tenant owed feudal rights and obligations not to the seller but to the Land Lord.

The Conveyancing Act of 1874 renders any clause in a disposition against subinfeudation null and void.

See also: Thing, Tenure, Statute, Will, Standing