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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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INVESTITURE, n. Sc. Law: “the progress or series of titles, by which a real right in lands is vested in the proprietor” (Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 45), the completion of the title of a new owner to his property in modern times by the written evidence of charter and sasine.Sc. 1754 Erskine Principles ii. iii. §§ 8, 15:
The feudal right, or, as it is called, investiture, is constituted by charter and seisin. Possession was, in the infancy of feus, given by the superior himself to the vassal, immediately upon granting the charter . . . this was styled the proper investiture, by which the vassal's right was compleated unico contextu.
Sc. 1890 Bell Dict. Law Scot. 584:
Investiture is the term applied to the whole progress of titles, whereby a real right in lands is vested in the feudal proprietor. Where, therefore, lands have been vested in a person by charter and sasine, the charter and sasine are said to be the investiture of the estate; and the person called by the title-deeds to succeed . . . is said to be the heir of investiture.

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