Definitions
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- noun Alternative form of
infangthief . - verb transitive, Scotland To
draw ortake in. - verb transitive, Scotland To
cheat ;gull ; take in. - verb transitive, Scotland To
seize ; get into one's clutches.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He had rights of free-warren, saccage and sockage, cuisage and jambage, fosse and fork, infang theofe and outfang theofe; and all waifs and strays belonged to him in fee simple.
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HOW NIGEL WAS TRIED BY THE ABBOT OF WAVERLEY The law of the Middle Ages, shrouded as it was in old Norman-French dialect, and abounding in uncouth and incomprehensible terms, in deodands and heriots, in infang and outfang, was a fearsome weapon in the hands of those who knew how to use it.
Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906
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The law of the Middle Ages, shrouded as it was in old Norman-French dialect, and abounding in uncouth and incomprehensible terms, in deodands and heriots, in infang and outfang, was a fearsome weapon in the hands of those who knew how to use it.
Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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The descent of the manors through the monasteries and the persons who purchased them at the Dissolution filled several pages, and was supplemented with a charter recognising rights of infang and outfang, assize of bread and ale, and so forth.
Round About a Great Estate Richard Jefferies 1867
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University held and exercised the privileges of infang-thief and outfang-thief, and other such old-world rights, there must have been a place somewhere within the liberties devoted to examinations even more exciting than the great-go.
Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859
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Veolan, and others, had been erected into a free barony by a charter from David the First, cum liberali potest. habendi curias et justicias, cum fossa et furca (LIE, pit and gallows) et saka et soka, et thol et theam, et infang-thief et outfang-thief, sive hand-habend. sive bak-barand. '
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Veolan, and others, had been erected into a free barony by a charter from David the First, cum liberali potest. habendi curias et justicias, cum fossa et furca (LIE, pit and gallows) et saka et soka, et thol et theam, et infang-thief et outfang-thief, sive hand-habend. sive bak-barand. '
Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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(= lie = pit and gallows) _et saka et soka, et thol et theam, et infang-thief et outfang-thief, sive hand-habend. sive bak-barand.
The Waverley 1877
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Tully - Veolan, and others, had been erected into a free barony by a charter from David the First, cum liberali potest. habendi curias et justicias, cum fossa et furca (LIE, pit and gallows) et saka et soka, et thol et theam, et infang-thief et outfang-thief, sive hand-habend. sive bak-barand.’
Waverley 2004
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