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PRONUNCIATION OF INFEFT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INFEFT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Infeft is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INFEFT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

infeft

Feoffment

In the Middle Ages, especially under the European feudal system, feoffment or enfeoffment was the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service. This mechanism was later used to avoid restrictions on the passage of title in land by a system in which a landowner would give land to one person for the use of another. The common law of estates in land grew from this concept.

Definition of infeft in the English dictionary

The definition of infeft in the dictionary is officially in possession of heritable land.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INFEFT


hard-left
ˈhɑːdˌleft
inside-left
ˈɪnsaɪdˈleft
uncleft
ʌnˈkleft
wefte
weft

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INFEFT

infectious mononucleosis
infectiously
infectiousness
infective
infectively
infectiveness
infectivity
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infecund
infecundity
infeftment
infelicities
infelicitous
infelicitously
infelicity
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inferable
inferably
infere

WORDS THAT END LIKE INFEFT

antitheft
bereft
cleft
copyleft
deft
eft
eyes left
far left
far-left
hard left
heft
identity theft
left
New Left
outside-left
reft
stage left
theft
to the left
weft

Synonyms and antonyms of infeft in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «infeft» into 25 languages

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510 millions of speakers

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380 millions of speakers
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Tidak
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Ora ana
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Trends of use of infeft

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INFEFT»

The term «infeft» is normally little used and occupies the 142.641 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INFEFT» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INFEFT»

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1
The decisions of the Court of Session: from its first ...
Thus, the Lord Stair, Tit. Reduction and Improbation, § 14. says, That a pursuer of reduction and improbation should not insist upon any title until he himself be actually infeft on that right ; and, for the same reason, he cannot insist to reduce and ...
Scotland. Court of Session, William Maxwell Morison, 1811
2
Decisions of the Court of Session: From the Month of ...
until the common author was infeft, and, from that time only could their validity be dated. The substance of the arguments for Kelly were, That no man can give an infeftment who is not infeft himself, and that if the question were only betwixt the ...
‎1791
3
Supplement to the Dictionary of the Decisions of the Court ...
Lord KILKERRAN makes the following observations upon the question which the 'case involved. “ Into, 1 have ever held it as a point, that he who first completes the real right, or in other words, he who first denudes the person last infeft, has the ...
Mungo Ponton Brown, 1826
4
The Institutions of the Law of Scotland, Deduced from Its ...
But this is not the accrescing of a new right, but declaring an old ; yet, where a person having a disposition of lands did infeft another in an annualrent, himself never being infeft, and afterwards did assign the disposition to a third party, who was ...
‎1832
5
Leading Cases in the Law of Scotland: Prepared from the ...
Each 4. Fund 6." "FundG j Adjudger-infeft draws \ Annualrentcr . 2 J 4 I Adjudger draws back with charge ) 2 from > the other adjudger. J "Fund5 * Adjudger-infeft draws 4 ( Charge draws back 1 from \ Annualrenter . . 1 l the other adjudger.
George Ross, 1849
6
The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in ...
In 1808 the mid-superior conveyed the estate of mid-superiority to the proprietor of the dominium utile, who took infeft- ment upon the disposition in 1811. In 1 834 the mid-superior, upon the narrative that the disposition of 1808 contained an ...
‎1873
7
An Analysis of the Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) ...
self of the Compulsory Powers of the Act. Such person must be " infeft in Lands holden of a Subject-Superior upon a Conveyance or Deed of or relating to such Lands granted by or derived from the Person last entered with the Superior and ...
John Marshall, 1869
8
Manual of the Law of Scotland
But if any other person is infeft in the property, the objection is valid, because the jury cannot answer that the person, to whom the heir wishes to be served, died last infeft. In order to enable heirs to reduce such infeftments, when given to one ...
John Hill Burton, 1847
9
Digest of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, ...
A party who held an open Crown charter, granted a feu-disposition to a vassal who was thereupon infeft ; and afterwards a disposition of the dominium directum to another, who was infeft ;* and the latter having claimed to be enrolled as a ...
Patrick Shaw, 1843
10
A Treatise on the history and law of Entails in Scotland. ...
tees were entitled to appear, as they did not claim the chameter of heirs of tailzie and provision, but only under the titles of disponees infeft, claimed the privilege of appearing in the special service, and of opposing every step which was taken ...
Erskine Douglas SANDFORD, 1842

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