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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

To loan money upon securities of a more or less permanent nature or to place it in business ventures or real estate or otherwise lay it out, so that it may produce a revenue or income.

Drake v. Crane, 127 Mo. 85, 29 S. W. 990, 27 L. R. A. 653; Stramann v. Scheeren, 7 Colo. App. 1, 42 Pac. 191; Una v. Dodd, 39 N. J. Eq. 186.

To clothe one with the possession of a fief or benefice.

See Investiture.