Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Scots law, the old process of giving symbolical possession of heritable property, the legal evidence of which is an instrument of sasine.
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Examples
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A difficulty was presented as to completing titles when there were no bailies to give infeftments or receive resignations; and so late as 1832 a petition was presented to the Court of Session praying the Court to appoint bailies to the burgh of Auchterarder to give infeftment.
Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883
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Antonelli supported his note, -- that note which ratified the banishment of the arts from Italy, and gave barbarism an eternal infeftment in the soil, -- by affirming that it was passed in order to encourage l'industria dello Stato; which is as if one should say that he had cut his neighbour's throat to protect his life; for certainly Antonelli's note cut the throat of industry.
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849
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