Usually means: Granting land to subordinate tenants.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. subinfeudation: Merriam-Webster
  2. subinfeudation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. subinfeudation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. subinfeudation: Wordnik
  5. subinfeudation: Wiktionary
  6. subinfeudation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. subinfeudation: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. subinfeudation: Dictionary.com
  9. Subinfeudation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Subinfeudation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. subinfeudation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Subinfeudation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. subinfeudation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. subinfeudation: FreeDictionary.org
  15. subinfeudation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Subinfeudation: Legal dictionary

(Note: See subinfeudate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (subinfeudation)

noun:  (UK, law, obsolete) The practice by which tenants, holding land under the king or other superior lord, carved out new and distinct tenures in their turn by subletting or alienating a part of their lands.

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