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PRONUNCIATION OF INFEFTMENT

infeftment  [ɪnˈfɛftmənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INFEFTMENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Infeftment is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INFEFTMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of infeftment in the English dictionary

The definition of infeftment in the dictionary is the official or symbolic bestowal of heritable land on a person, the process of infefting.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INFEFTMENT


adjustment
əˈdʒʌstmənt
allotment
əˈlɒtmənt
apartment
əˈpɑːtmənt
appointment
əˈpɔɪntmənt
assortment
əˈsɔːtmənt
commitment
kəˈmɪtmənt
compartment
kəmˈpɑːtmənt
department
dɪˈpɑːtmənt
disappointment
ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt
enactment
ɪnˈæktmənt
engraftment
ɪnˈɡrɑːftmənt
excitement
ɪkˈsaɪtmənt
fitment
ˈfɪtmənt
ingraftment
ɪnˈɡrɑːftmənt
investment
ɪnˈvɛstmənt
ointment
ˈɔɪntmənt
recruitment
rɪˈkruːtmənt
statement
ˈsteɪtmənt
treatment
ˈtriːtmənt
understatement
ˌʌndəˈsteɪtmənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INFEFTMENT

infectiously
infectiousness
infective
infectively
infectiveness
infectivity
infector
infecund
infecundity
infeft
infelicities
infelicitous
infelicitously
infelicity
infelt
infer
inferable
inferably
infere
inference

WORDS THAT END LIKE INFEFTMENT

advertisement
contentment
cost-of-living adjustment
education department
enlistment
fire department
foreign investment
graphic design department
heat treatment
indictment
Justice Department
one-room apartment
police department
power of appointment
pretreatment
resentment
sales department
service department
State Department
studio apartment
the treatment

Synonyms and antonyms of infeftment in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «infeftment» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INFEFTMENT

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Translator English - Chinese

infeftment
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

infeftment
570 millions of speakers

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infeftment
510 millions of speakers

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infeftment
380 millions of speakers
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infeftment
280 millions of speakers

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infeftment
278 millions of speakers

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infeftment
270 millions of speakers

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infeftment
260 millions of speakers

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Berpindah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

infeftment
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

infeftment
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

infeftment
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Infark
85 millions of speakers
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infeftment
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

infeftment
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपहार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

infeftment
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

infeftment
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

infeftment
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

infeftment
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

infeftment
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

infeftment
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

infeftment
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

infeftment
10 millions of speakers
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infeftment
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of infeftment

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INFEFTMENT»

The term «infeftment» is normally little used and occupies the 146.789 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INFEFTMENT» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INFEFTMENT»

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The decisions of the Court of Session: from its first ...
What prevailed at this time with the plurality was a suggestion from the Bench upon the nature of an infeftment of warrandice. That an infeftment in warrandice of other lands principally disponed was really a separate disposition of property ...
Scotland. Court of Session, William Maxwell Morison, 1811
2
Leading Cases in the Law of Scotland: Prepared from the ...
His infeftment will be a medium impedimentum to hinder the operation of the adjudication retro in competition with him. This, however, affords no argument for holding that an infeftment on a voluntary right is preferable to an adjudication ...
George Ross, 1849
3
Decisions of the Court of Session: From the Month of ...
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 author himself, the successorfis infeftment would be held good :> not that it is so ...
‎1791
4
A Dictionary of the Law of Scotland: Intended for the Use of ...
INFEFTMENT. In modern language, infeftment is synonymous with sasine, meaning the instrument of possession ; but it had anciently a more extended meaning, and was synonymous with investiture. In this last sense, the investiture or ...
Robert Bell, Sir John Skene, 1815
5
The Institutions of the Law of Scotland, Deduced from Its ...
base infeftment. A wife's base infeftment, in security of her liferent provisions, was held to be validated by the possession of her husband, which was accounted hers; Nisbet v. Murray, 23. Nov. 1664', (1303); L. Burgy v. Strachan, 18. July 1667  ...
‎1832
6
Decisions of the Court of Session: from 1681 to 1691
Found that a base infeftment was cloathed with possession only by a summons of poinding the ground, raised and called declarators ante ter- minum, or by a decreet obtained after the infeftment for a term's annualrent prior to the infeftment,  ...
Scotland. Court of Session, Sir Roger Hog Harcarse (Lord), 1757
7
Supplement to the Dictionary of the Decisions of the Court ...
3150, Although, from the words of the act 1617, an infeftment seems to be necessary to establish a title of prescription, yet the statute has always been explained otherwise; (Stair, tit. Prescriptions, sec. 23 ;) where it is said that the act extends ...
Mungo Ponton Brown, 1826
8
The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in ...
... his son Captain A. Brown, in fee, and having assigned the precept in the Crown-charter, infeftment followed in terms of the disposition. By this infeftment, the fee of the superiority only was vested in Captain Brown, the dominium utile being ...
‎1829
9
House of Commons Papers
taken at the time of such delivery, such subjects shall be specially the subjects excepted in the minute to be entered as aforesaid ; and if at any future S" warrant1 period it may be desired to take Infeftment in virtue of such writs, in the subjects ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1831
10
An Institute of the Laws of Scotland in Civil Rights: With ...
IN heritable rights b infeftment, the preference regularly is' determined according to t e priority of the registration of the respective seisins * ; so that the rule in the canon law, Qzziprior est tempare po- tior est jure b, here obtains. But, if the right is ...
Lord Andrew MacDowall Bankton, 1753

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