Subinfeudation
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
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 Edw. I.; 2 Bl. Comm. 91; 3 Kent, Comm. 406.