Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to investiture. See the quotation.

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  • It needed to be clothed in some investitive fact which the law recognized in order to give rise to a civil obligation which should be enforced at law.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • (c) The court may permit (1) the use of electronic or photographic means for the preservation of evidence or the perpetuation of a record, and (2) the broadcasting, televising, recording, or photographing of investitive, ceremonial, or naturalization proceedings ...

    Dangerous Intersection 2009

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