infeftment

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Noun[edit]

infeftment (countable and uncountable, plural infeftments)

  1. Alternative form of enfeoffment
  2. (rare) exit
    • 1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Opinions of the Bench”, in Weir of Hermiston, London: Chatto & Windus, page 82:
      We were hearing the parties in a long, crucial case, before the fifteen; Creech was moving at some length for an infeftment; when I saw Glenkindie lean forward to Hermiston with his hand over his mouth and make him a secret communication.