Enfeoff

v. t.	1.	(Law) To give a feud, or right in land, to; to invest with a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment. [imp. & p. p. Enfeoffed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Enfeoffing.]
	2.	To give in vassalage; to make subservient. [The king] enfeoffed himself to popularity. - Shak.

Verb

1.

enfeoff - put in possession of land in exchange for a pledge of service, in feudal society; "He enfeoffed his son-in-law with a large estate in Scotland"

TO ENFEOFF. To make a gift of any corporeal hereditaments to another. Vide Feoffment.

enfeoffment, give