To give notice, to inform someone or a party to an action. In legal proceedings, and in respect to public matters, this word is generally, if not universally, used as importing a notice given by some person, whose duty it was to give it, in some manner prescribed, and to some person entitled to receive It, or be notified. Appeal of Potwine, 31 Conn. 384.
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