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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

An act authorizing letters to be granted to a suitable person, means proper, competent person, — one suitable in a legal view. Peters u.

Public Administrator, 1 Bradf. 200.

A suitable bridge, in an act providing for a railroad viaduct, means such a bridge as, in the judgment of the board of railroad commissioners, the safety and convenience of the public and the interests of the railroad corporations require.

Worcester v. Kailroad Comm'rs, 113 Mass. 161.