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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...] about APPROVE

Fr. In old English law. Tax; tallage; tribute; imposition; payment; charge; expenses. Kelham. … [Read more...] about APPORT

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...] about APPREHENSIO

Notes indorsed by another person than the maker, for additional security. … [Read more...] about APPROVED INDORSED NOTES

The division, partition, or distribution of a subject matter in proportionate parts. Co. Litt. 147; 1 Swanst 37, n.; 1 Story, Eq. Jur. 475a. Of contracts. The allowance, in case of a severable contract, partially performed, of a part of the entire consideration proportioned to the degree in which the contract was carried out. Of rent. The allotment of their shares in a rent to … [Read more...] about APPORTIONMENT