verhaften

German

Etymology

ver- +‎ haften

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fɛɐ̯ˈhaftn̩/
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Verb

verhaften (weak, third-person singular present verhaftet, past tense verhaftete, past participle verhaftet, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, the general meaning, which is now rare) to stop moving and instead stick, or make or become bound (more or less literally or figuratively)
  2. (transitive) to imprison, to put into confinement after judicial writ (the state of which is called Haft) (this is the most common signification in its strict definition, of which however legal laymen may deviate to mean any kind of government arrest)
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  3. (transitive, now rare) to legally subject to eventual foreclosure
    • 2012, Diederich Eckardt, “Das Grundstückszubehör in der Zwangsvollstreckung”, in Zeitschrift für das Juristische Studium‎, number 4, page 469b:
      Ist die Zubehörsache nämlich einmal grundpfandrechtlich „verhaftet“ worden, so bleibt sie dies unabdingbar und unabhängig von einem Eigentümerwechsel, es sei denn, dass die Voraussetzungen einer „Enthaftung“ nach §§ 1121 Abs. 1, 1122 Abs. 2 BGB, § 23 Abs. 1 S. 2 ZVG vorliegen.
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Conjugation

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