Additionally they asked permission for Friedrich Gross to retain his position in Magnus' service, asked for supplies of bacon, butter, gunpowder, and also soldiers to be sent to Kuressaare, and a confirmation of their personal
enfeoffments. (74) Most probably the envoys then travelled to Livonia, and at least Burmeister took part in the siege of Tallinn, which started in the summer of 1570, and in which the Livonian household troops led by Magnus joined forces with the Russians.
(15) Similarly, the idea that
enfeoffment of property might be a question for a bishop would have been quite laughable; lands of the realm were the province of the king.
(5) While noblemen exercised "public" power: through knighting, through inheritance or
enfeoffment, or through public office, women exerted influence in more informal ways.
Modern English and American trust doctrines can be traced back to the English use: a general trust concept that "entailed the transfer of legal title (
enfeoffment) to a person who was to hold the property (the feoffee to uses) for the benefit of another (the cestui que use)." (10) The use, similar to trust concepts in other societies, developed as an equitable response to positive-law deficiencies and a restrictive English common law of property.
The following passage describes the process of
enfeoffment (a gift or grant of land by which the recipient acquires a freehold to the land in return for service to the tenant-in-chief), which has a particular legal burden, and betrays the concerns of the dispossessed land-owning class of the twelfth century.
Chaplais has made a detailed analysis of the charter of
enfeoffment, particularly noting the date - August 6th -- the Feast of the Translation -- and the decoration featuring the royal arms and the arms of Gaveston and Clare, all three embraced within the wings of the Earl of Cornwall's symbolic eagle.
Even at the highest levels of society,
enfeoffment involved the delivery of a clump of earth and perhaps a twig, symbolizing the land in miniature.(78) At the very bottom of the social structure, the nonfreeholders, who actually tilled the soil and who were considered to be the feet in the society as human body analogy,(79) were intimately connected to the land and thus to nature generally.
Hoarseness becomes rhetoric seasoned/as first distinct words lacerate grim oppression reality a behind vision tomb widowed
enfeoffment jettisoned.
Consolidating their authority through litigation, incorporation, and
enfeoffment, local town fathers built halls as "the seat and symbol of the autonomous community"(89).
First, and most importantly, there was the growing practice of
enfeoffment to use, which enabled a testator to evade the common-law rule prohibiting bequests of freehold land by will.
