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To express satisfaction and acceptance with regard to something. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition The act of a judge or magistrate in sanctioning and accepting as satisfactory a bond, security, or other instrument which is required by law to pass his inspection and receive his approbation before it becomes operative. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
To take hold of, whether with the mind, and so to conceive, believe, fear, dread, (Trogdon v. State, 133 Ind. 1, 32 N. E. 725;) or actually and bodily, and so to take a person on a criminal process ; to seize; to arrest, (Hogan v. Stophlet, 179 111. 150, 53 N. E. 604, 44 L. R. A. 809.) … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
To take to one's proper'and separate use. To improve; to enhance the value or profits of anything. To inclose and cultivate common or waste land. To approve common or waste land is to inclose and convert it to the purposes of husbandry, which the owner might always do, provided he left common sufficient for such as were entitled to it. St. Mert. c. 4; St. Westm. 2, c. 46; 2 Bl. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
Fr. In old English law. Tax; tallage; tribute; imposition; payment; charge; expenses. Kelham. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
Latin: In the civil and old English law. A taking hold of a person or thing; apprehension; the seizure or capture of a person. Calvin. One of the varieties or subordinate forms of occupatio, or the mode of acquiring title to things not belonging to any one. … [Read more...]