Infamy
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
That state which is produced by the conviction of an infamous crime, and the loss of honor, which renders the infamous person incompetent as a witness or juror.
3 Watts & S. (Pa.) 342.
INFANGTHEFE (from in, within, fang, taken, and thef, or theof, a thief).
In old English law
A thief taken in, or within; i. e., within the manor or liberty of any man having jurisdiction to try him. Spelman; Fleta, lib.
6, c. 37, § 2.
A thief taken on any one's lands, being one of his own men or tenants, found in possession of the thing stolen. Bracton, fol.
154b; 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 40.
The privilege or liberty, anciently granted to lords of certain manors, to try such offenders. Id.; Cowell; LL. Gul. Conq. lib.
3, note.
INFANS NON MULTUM A FURrOSO distat
An infant does not differ much from a lunatic. Bracton, lib.
3, c. 2, § 8; Dig. 50. 17. 5. 40; 1 Story, Eq. Jur. §§ 223, 224, 242.