Permit
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
V. To allow; to give consent to; to suffer. Permission: allowance; consent; leave; sufferance. Permit, n.. a fonnal paper, embodying consent or leave from an officer or proprietor, for the performance of some act; a license. A city ordinance that " no person shall permit swine to go upon any sidewalk," &c., meains "allow by not prohibiting."
Commonwealth v. Curtis, 9 Allen, 266.
Permit implies consent given or leave granted.
Loosey v. Orser, 4 Bosw. 391, 404.
One who has engaged not to permit a ditch to be dug on his land, is liable, if it is made by one to whom he has sold the premises without a restriction; such a sale permits the work.
Bennett v. Kennedy, 7 Wend. 163.