- Look up
infangthief or
outfangthief in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Infangthief and
outfangthief were
privileges granted to
feudal lords (and various...
- estate-holders,
along the
lines of "with sac and soc, toll and team,
infangthief and outfangthief" and so on. A waif was an item of
ownerless and unclaimed...
- high
crimes and
misdemeanors hue and cry
indemnify and hold
harmless infangthief and
outfangthief joint and
several liability keep and
perform kind and...
-
Rights of
pillory and
tumbril [authority to
punish delinquents]
Rights of
infangthief and
outfangthief [authority to
imprison or
execute thieves or
other felons]...
- as
rather limited. The
standard grant of sac et soc, toll et team et
infangthief represented the
equivalent of the
authority of the
reeve at the hundred...
-
Gibbet Law may have been a last
vestige of the Anglo-Saxon
custom of
infangthief,
which allowed landowners to
enforce summary justice on
thieves within...
- estate-holders,
along the
lines of "with sac and soc, toll and team,
infangthief and outfangthief" and so on. Toll was the
right granted to a landowner...
-
described in full as pit and gallows, sake and soke, toll and team, and
infangthief. With the
introduction of the
feudal system to
Scotland in the 12th-century...
-
right to hold a
court with
jurisdiction over his own lands,
including infangthief (the
power to
punish thieves).
After the
Norman Conquest of 1066, the...
- and
locally executing a
person caught in the act of stealing,
called infangthief, is
early mediaeval.
Nathanael Salmon recorded the
legend in his 1728...
