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ACCUMULATIVE

That which accumulates, or is heaped up; additional. Said of several things heaped together, or of one thing added to another. Accumulative judgment. Where a person has already been convicted and sentenced, and a second or additional judgment is passed against him, the execution of which is postponed until the completion of the first sentence, such second judgment is said to be accumulative. Accumulative legacy. A second, double, or additional legacy; a legacy given in addition to another given by the same instrument, or by another instrument. Deo. No one is bound to accuse himself, except before God. See Hardres, 139.

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