English Dictionary

outfangthief

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈaʊtfaŋθiːf/

名詞

歴史的 稀用 可算名詞

(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.

日本語の意味

封建領主が、自領外で捕縛された盗賊（特に自領民である場合が多い）に対し、迅速な裁判を行い、有罪とされた際に没収された財産を自らのものとする特権

In the seventeenth century the baron exercised his outfangthief to summarily try a tenant caught stealing outside his estate and to keep any forfeited chattels.

17世紀、その男爵は領地外で捕らえた盗人を即決で裁き、有罪になった者の没収された動産を保持する権利を行使した。

意味（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.

A grant of outfangthief imports the trial of those of his fee taken for felony in another precinct.

意味（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.

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.

意味（3）

(historical, law, rare, countable) A thief so captured and tried.