单词 | investitive |
释义 | investitiveadj. 1. That has the function or effect of investing someone or something (in various senses of the verb); of, relating to, or constituting investiture or investment. rare before 20th cent.Often used in the context of American Scouting; cf. investry n., investure v. 1. ΚΠ 1662 J. Humfrey Second Disc. Re-ordination viii. 80 Mans Ceremony..is, we are sure, but a formal delivery, or investitive only at first. 1930 Lincoln (Nebraska) Sunday Star 6 June c8/3 An Investitive Ceremony was held at which time four girls received their second class rank. 1979 Proc. Judicial Conf. 24 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (96th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Doc. 158) XXIV Taking of photographs in the courtroom..should be authorized with respect to investitive, ceremonial, and naturalization proceedings. 2007 Anthropol. Q. 80 543 Birth..remains in this respect a sumptuary and an investitive event, on a precise par with marriage. 2. Law. That has the function or effect of investing someone with a legal right or obligation; (of a fact, action, event, etc.) that causes a legal right or obligation to come into effect. Often contrasted with divestitive. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > [adjective] > vested as a right > vesting as a right investitive1780 investive1842 1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) xvi. p. ccxlvi (note) What is meant by payment, is always an act of investitive power. 1809 Edinb. Rev. 15 102 The non-performance of investitive acts. 1871 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis iii. 292 Civil obligations..(1) those to which the title or investitive fact is a contract; and (2) those to which the title or investitive fact is a delict. 1902 E. J. MacGillivray Treat. Law Copyright i. ii. 37 Publication must be looked at from two points of view—divestitive, i.e. as taking away the author's common law right; and investitive, i.e. as clothing him with the statutory right. 1960 Harvard Law Rev. 73 1392 The building is not investitive of a section 10 copyright. 2016 Philippines Daily Inquirer (Nexis) 31 Mar. In law, the dispositive portion..of a court's decision..is the investitive or controlling factor that determines and settles the rights of the parties. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1662 |
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