Investiture

investiture 1 : the act of establishing in office or ratifying 2 : livery of seisin ...

Lay investiture

Lay investiture, means the ceremony of placing a bishop in possession of lands, money revenues, and other diocesan temporalities, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 896....

investment : investiture n 1 : the outlay of money usually for income or profit : capital outlay ;also : the sum invested or the property purchased 2 : the commitment of funds with a view to minimizing risk and safeguarding capital while earning a return compare speculation ...

livery of seisin

livery of seisin : an ancient ceremony for conveyance of land by the symbolic transfer of a relevant item (as a key, twig, or turf) or by symbolic entry of the grantee called also investiture see also feoffment ...

Disinvestiture

The act of depriving of investiture...

Homage

A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to and in the presence of his lord on receiving investiture of fee or coming to it by succession that he was his man or vassal profession of fealty to a sovereign...

Investure

Investiture investment...

Brevia testata

Brevia testata, written memoranda, introduced to perpetuate the tenor of a conveyance and investiture, when grants by parol only became the foundation of frequent dispute and uncertainty. To this end they registered in the deed the persons who attended as witnesses, which was formerly done without their signing their names (that not being always in their power), but they only heard the deed read; and then the clerk or scribe added their names in a sort of memorandum; thus, 'his testibus, Johanne Moore, Jacobo Smith, et aliis ad hanc rem convocatis.' Our modern deeds are in reality nothing more than an improvement or amplification of these brevia testata, 2 Bl. Com. 307....

Cornwall, Duke of

Cornwall, Duke of, one of the titles of the eldest son of the reigning sovereign of the United Kingdom. He is Duke of Cornwall by inheritance, and is usually made Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester by special creation and investiture. Cornwall is a Royal Duchy, the revenues of which belong to the eldest son of the sovereign for the time being, and are administered under the (English) Duchy of Cornwall Management Acts, 1863 and 1868 (26 & 27 Vict. c.49), (31 & 32 Vict. c. 35), s. 25 of the earlier Act abolishing leases for lives (see LIVES). The special jurisdiction and powers of the Vice-Warden of the Stannaries Court [see (English) Stannaries Acts, 1836 and 1837] were abolished by the (English) Stannaries Court (Abolition) Act, 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 45), the jurisdiction and powers being transferred to the County Court of Cornwall, see (English) County Courts Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 53); Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Local Courts,' See also STANNARY....

Entry

Entry, the depositing of a document in the proper office or place; actual entry on land is necessary to constitute a seisin in deed, and is necessary in certain cases, as, e.g., to perfect a common-law lease.When a person without any right has taken posses-sion of land, the party entitled may make a formal but peaceable entry, which is quite an extra judicial and summary remedy, on such lands, declaring that thereby he takes possession, which notorious act of ownership is equivalent to a feudal investiture by the lord; or he may enter on any part of it in the same county, declaring it to be in the name of the whole; but if it lie indifferent counties, he must make different entries. This remedy by entry takes place in three only of the five species of ouster-viz., abatement, intrusion, and disseisin; for as in these the original entry of the wrongdoer was unlawful, they may therefore be remedied by the mere entry of him who has right. But upon a discontinuance or deforcement, the owner...

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