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Name Term description
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