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Definition of Infeft
1. to invest with heritable property [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infeft
Literary usage of Infeft
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Landlord and Tenant: With an Appendix Containing by Robert Hunter, William Guthrie (1876)
"As the granter of a lease is styled the heritable proprietor of Art. the subject
let, he must be infeft at the date of the grant. ..."
2. A Handbook of Husband and Wife According to the Law of Scotland by Frederick Parker Walton (1893)
"session, but was not infeft, it was held that the widow must have her terce.1
... Eg, a bondholder infeft sold the security subjects, but died before ..."
3. A Treatise on Leases: Explaining the Nature, Form, and Effect of the by Robert Bell, William Bell (1825)
"2. That of a tenant. IV. Where the granter acts by delegated powers. 1. As a tutor.
2. As a commissioner and factor^ 1. WHERE THE GRANTEE IS NOT infeft. 1. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Conveyance of Land to a Purchaser, and on the Manner of by Robert Bell, William Bell (1830)
"Obligation to infeft'.—This clause is the remnant of the contract of sale, by
which formerly the seller bound himself and his heir to enter the purchaser, ..."
5. Analysis of Heritable Securities Acts 1845 and 1847: Infeftment Act, Service by William Alexander (1848)
"... of a Vassal last •publicly infeft in lands of which the annual ... and the
said EF thereby obliged himself to infeft the Petitioner and his ..."
6. Styles of Deeds and Instruments: In Accordance with the Titles to Land by John Hendry, John Thompson Mowbray (1878)
"Sequestrated Estate, or of a Liquidator of a Company, in lands in which the
Bankrupt or Company teas infeft. (Consolidation Act, 1868, Sch. 0. ..."
7. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1843)
"The deed contained an obligation by the grantor to infeft and seise himself in
... These bonds, on which infeft- ment followed, contained the usual ..."
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