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Meaning of "infeftment" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INFEFTMENT

ɪnˈfɛftmənt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INFEFTMENT

noun
adjective
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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 · allotment · apartment · appointment · assortment · commitment · compartment · department · disappointment · enactment · engraftment · excitement · fitment · ingraftment · investment · ointment · recruitment · statement · treatment · understatement

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

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
REFERENCE
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