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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
In law, is much used in its vernacular sense, and also as substantially equivalent to demand. The two words, request and require, as used in notices to creditors to present claims against an estate, are of the same origin, and virtually synonymous.
Prentice v. Whitney, 15 N. Y. Supreme Ct. 300.