Enfeoff

Enfeoff (pronounced en-fef or en-feef)

(1) In property law, to invest a person with possession of a freehold estate in land

(2) In feudal societies, to take someone into vassalage by giving a fee or fief in return for certain services.  It was employed extensively to raise troops for armies.

1350-1400: From Middle English enfe(o)ffen, borrowed from the Anglo-French enfe(o)ffer.  The Old French fiefer and fiever were derivative of fief (fee).  Enfeoffment is the noun, enfeoff the third-person singular, enfeoffs the simple present enfeoffing the present participle and enfeoffed the simple past and past participle.  This survives in English (and Australian) real-property law as the true expression of freehold title of law (in-fee-simple) although, in both England and the old dominions, freehold is technically a revocable grant of title by the Crown.

Rocroi, the last Tercio by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau (b 1964).  It depicts the Spanish defeat at Rocroi against the French in 1643.  During the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), much enfeoffment was required.