Subinfeudation
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The act of an inferior lord by which he carved out a part of an estate which he held of a superior, and granted it to an inferior tenant to be held of himself. It was an indirect mode of transferring the fief, and resorted to as an artifice to elude the feudal restraint upon alienation. This was forbidden by the statute of Quia Emptores, 18 Ed. I.; 2 Bla. Com. 91; 3 Kent 406.
See Cadw. Gr. Rents § 7; Chal. R. P. 18; Quia Emptores; Feudal Law; Tenure.