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outfangthief

English

Alternative forms

  • outfangthef
  • outfangenthef, utfangenthef, utfangenethef
  • utfangthief
  • utfangethef
  • utfangthef

Etymology

From out- +? fang +? thief, formed—probably in Middle English [Term?]—after the model of infangthief, with the only Old English [Term?] attestation a spurious charter forged in the 1st half of the 12th century.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?a?tfa??i?f/

Noun

outfangthief

  1. (historical, law, properly, rare) A privilege of some feudal lords permitting them to execute summary judgment upon thieves (particularly their own tenants) captured outside their estates and to keep any chattels forfeited upon conviction.
    • 1822, John Comyns & Anthony Hammond, A Digest of the Laws of England, Butterworth & Son, p. 328:
      A grant of outfangthief imports the trial of those of his fee taken for felony in another precinct.
    • 1990, David Maxwell Walker, A Legal History of Scotland, Vol. II, p. 640:
      The addition of outfangandthef is much less usual [than infangthief]; it seems to have meant the right to try a man of the barony taken stealing outside the barony, if necessary repledging him to the barony court.
  2. (historical, law, generally, rare) A privilege of some feudal lords permitting them to execute summary judgment upon all thieves captured within their estates, regardless of their origin.
    • 1845, John Henry Newman, Lives of the English Saints, ST Freemantle, p. 19:
      But feudalism also contained another principle, and that was, that within his own territory each lord was absolute; his suzerain could not interfere with his jurisdiction; infangthief and outfangthief implied a very perfect and intelligible power of hanging and imprisoning as he pleased.
  3. (historical, law, rare, countable) A thief so captured and tried.

See also

  • infangthief

References

outfangthief From the web:


infangthief

English

Alternative forms

  • infang (shortened)
  • infangthef, infangenthef
  • infangentheof

Etymology

From Middle English infangthef, from Old English infangeneþ?of (“infangthief”), from in- + fangen (“siezed, taken”) + þ?of (“thief”). See also infang.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??nfæ??i?f/

Noun

infangthief (uncountable)

  1. (historical, law) A privilege of some feudal lords permitting them to execute summary judgment upon thieves captured within their estates, sometimes restricted to the lord's tenants or men and sometimes limited to those caught in flagrante delicto.
    • 1964, Anthony Burgess, The Eve of St Venus:
      The wrought-iron gates (infangthief and outfangthief in heavy balls on the gate-posts) were open for their hard-breathing entry.

See also

  • outfangthief

References

infangthief From the web:

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