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Name | Term description |
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NameInfeftment |
Term description The investing of a new owner with legal possession of land or heritage; 'infeftment in security' was the temporary infeftment of a creditor in heritable property as security against a loan or dbt. |
NameInst. |
Term description Instant; this day or month. |
NameIntromission |
Term description Taking up the possession and management of property belonging to someone else. It can be legal, when someone is designated as an 'intromettor with the goods and gear' of another, or illegal, when it is called 'vicious intromission' in which case an heir intromits with the moveable property of his ancestors without right. |
NameInventar |
Term description Inventory of moveable property. |
NameIliac passion |
Term description Acute colic or appendicitis |
NameImposthume |
Term description Boil, abscess |