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PRONUNCIATION OF INFANGTHIEF

infangthief  [ˈɪnfaŋˌθiːf] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INFANGTHIEF

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Infangthief is a noun.
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WHAT DOES INFANGTHIEF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Infangthief and outfangthief

Infangthief and outfangthief were privileges originally granted to landowners in Anglo-Saxon law. With the granting of these privileges by the Crown, they were able to execute summary justice on thieves within the borders of their own estates. Infangthief applied to thieves captured within a landowner's estate; outfangthief applied to thieves who had committed a crime on a landowner's estate but were captured elsewhere, permitting the landowner to transfer such a person to his own court for summary justice. The thief's captor was given a choice between summarily executing him – the usual fate for the poor – or ransoming him for a fine set according to his rank. Such privileges had several advantages: they were profitable, helped to maintain discipline on the estate and identified the privilege-holder as a figure of authority. They remained in use after the Norman Conquest as a standard right given to local lords and did not finally fall into disuse until the time of Edward III, and even then it continued to be asserted for a considerable time afterwards in Halifax, West Yorkshire.

Definition of infangthief in the English dictionary

The definition of infangthief in the dictionary is in Old English law, the right of a lord of the manor to have jurisdiction over a thief caught within the bounds of his property.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INFANGTHIEF


beef
biːf
belief
bɪˈliːf
brief
briːf
chief
tʃiːf
disbelief
ˌdɪsbɪˈliːf
editor-in-chief
ˌɛdɪtəʳɪntˈʃiːf
grief
ɡriːf
leaf
liːf
lief
liːf
massif
ˈmæsiːf
motif
məʊˈtiːf
outfangthief
ˈaʊtfæŋˌθiːf
reef
riːf
reif
riːf
relief
rɪˈliːf
sharif
ʃæˈriːf
sif
siːf
sportif
spɔːˈtiːf
Tenerife
ˌtɛnəˈriːf
thief
θiːf

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INFANGTHIEF

infancies
infancy
infant
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infant class
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infant mortality rate
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infant school
infant welfare clinic
infanta
infante
infanteer
infanthood
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WORDS THAT END LIKE INFANGTHIEF

big Chief
big White Chief
car thief
commander in chief
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commanders in chief
editor in chief
examination-in-chief
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fire chief
handkerchief
in chief
kerchief
mischief
neckerchief
paper handkerchief
pocket-handkerchief
police chief
sneak thief
tweet thief

Synonyms and antonyms of infangthief in the English dictionary of synonyms

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infangthief
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Translator English - Romanian

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INFANGTHIEF»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INFANGTHIEF» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about infangthief

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INFANGTHIEF»

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Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield: Volume 4, 1315 to 1317
Where are we to search for instances of trials for infangthief elsewhere than in the Coroners' Rolls, seeing that only one or two examples can be found in these Wakefield Court Rolls ? Let us, first of all then, enquire if, as we should expect them ...
John Lister, 2013
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Rights of Common and Other Prescriptive Rights: Being ...
1 & 2 Infangthief With regard to the franchises of infangthief and out- ttdef°U "*" fangthief mentioned by Lord Coke in the passage that I have read if), they have both long become obsolete. Infangthief was a liberty or privilege, granted to the ...
Joshua Williams, 1880
3
Seignorial Administration in England
Noël Denholm-Young. northern barons to the assize, for there was no frankpledge in the north.1 In some parts, however, the assize was claimed as appurtenant to the view,2 and in others infangthief as well (e.g. in Kent).3 Many lords naturally ...
Noël Denholm-Young, 1963
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A History of the Criminal Law of England
59-64; infangthief, law of, 59; purgation and ordeal, law of, 59; the wer, 60; private war, 60 ; frith-bryce and mund-bryce, 60 ; the king's peace, 60 ; trial by combat, 61 ; presumption of law as to travallers, law of Ina, 61 INFANGTHIEF, or the law ...
James Fitzjames Stephen, 2014
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Essays in Medieval History
There was another vacancy in 1085, with which we may connect a similar English writ declaring the canons of St. Paul's to be worthy of sac and soc, in borough and out of borough, by strand and by land ; also of toll and team and infangthief, ...
Frederick Maurice Powicke, 1925
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The Governance of Norman and Angevin England, 1086-1272
It was a mark of the status at least of a greater thegn to exercise the powers comprehended in a mnemonic formula known from the eleventh century as 'sac and soc, toll and team, and infangthief ' . Of these terms sac and soc is the hardest to ...
Wilfred Lewis Warren, 1987
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The Aristocracy of Norman England
One particular problem is that of deciding the significance during the century after the Norman Conquest of rights of sake and soke, often combined with toll and team, and sometimes with infangthief. In general terms the right of sake and soke  ...
Judith A. Green, 2002
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the rise and progress of the english commonwealth ...
172 Limitations imposed by the King's Court, after the Conquest, upon the exercise of the Franchise of "Infangthief," or the right possessed by the Lord of the Township of inflicting summary punishment 173 The Grith-Sergeant or Peace Officer, ...
9
An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of ...
Infangthief, infangenethef, or infangthef, (from the Saxon in, fang to take, and thef ar theof, a thief) A privilege to try'(thieves and felons, taken within the limits of any place to which it was granted. Kay age. The same as wharfage, or money ...
Francis Blomefield, Charles Parkin, 1810
10
Border Liberties and Loyalties: North-east England, C.1200 - ...
Thus their lords had by long usage gallows and infangthief, and the assizes of bread and ale; they might also claim, often by royal grant, rights of chase, warren, market and fair. Such powers were significant forms of local authority: infangthief,  ...
Matthew L. Holford, Keith John Stringer, 2010

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INFANGTHIEF»

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Politics in Ghana Shouldn't be a Goldmine Field!!
They must be taken for infangthief. Down and away with ex-gratia of all sorts. Current happenings have evoked the shortfalls of our constitution ... «Vibe Ghana, Apr 13»

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