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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
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The expressions to leave a state and to, remove from a state are not always synonymous; but in La. Code I'r. arts. 212, 214, authorizing holding a debtor to bail who is about to leave or remove from the state, they appear to be used as equivalents.
Florance v. Camp, 5 La. 280.
That an agreement " to leave " a partnership includes release of good-will, see Van Dyiie v. Jackson, 1 E. D. Smith, 419. When a testamentary gift is made to the children whom a designated person "may leave," the word leave may be construed as synonymous with the word have, where a different construction would defeat the gift as void, and it is evident, from the general tenor of the will, that such was the sense in which the testator used the word.
Du Bois V. Ray, 85 N. Y. 162. And see King V. Savage, 121 Mass. 303.
The verb leave is used in a variety of senses; including to forsake, to abandon, to depart from, to suffer to remain, not to carry away. In a statute providing that no slave shall be brought within the state to be disposed of, left, or sold within the state, "left" should be understood as meaning, that while a master may, from considerations of comity, bring his slave within the state, he must not suffer him to remain there. It is not confined to prohibiting the abandonment of slaves.
Jackson v. Bullock, 12 Cmn. 38.