Allow

To approve of, sanction; to permit, consent to. Opposed, disallow. See Permit; Suffeb. In its ordinary sense, to grant, admit, afford, or to yield, to grant license to, permit. Implies a power to grant some privilege or permission.* Allowance. The act of permitting or giving; also, whatever is given as a share or portion. As, to allow, and the allowance of — an account, alimony, an amendment, an appeal, a bill of exceptions, a claim, a pardon, a pension, a sum to an insolvent. " Allowing " claims against estates: the sanction or approbation which the court gives to the acts of an executor or administrator as manifested by his account.* Allowance to a widow of money in lieu of dower: something substituted by way of compensation iot another thing."

1 Al-liinj'.

F. allonger, to lengthen.

2 Crosby v. Koub, 16 Wis. 626-27 (1863); Folger v. Chase, 18 Pick. 67 (1836); French «. Turner, 15 Ind. 62 (1860); Osgood v. Arte, 17 F. E. 677 (1883); Stoiy, Bills, § 204, Prom. Notes, §§ 121, 151. s Glenn v. Glenn. 41 Ala. 586 (1868.) » Doty V. Lawson, 14 F. E. 901 (1883).

Allowance to a child or other dependent: ordiiiarily, 3nly another name for a gift or gratuity J The honorable discharge of a soldier from service ioes not restore him allowances forfeited by desertion ^included in which is a bounty), that is, everything Bvhich could be recovered from the - government in consideration of enlistment and services. The forfeiture must first be removed.^