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Effect

A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889

A Dictionary of Law

1.

That which is produced; result of a cause.

See Cause, 1. 2.

Letters-patent will not be granted for a mere effect; they may be for a new mode or application of machinery to produce an effect.

See Patent, 2. 3.

The manner in which a contract, instrument, or law will operate, as ascertained by construction. See Tenor. "Take effect," "be in force," and "go into operation" are interchangeable.''

4.

To prosecute with effect: with due diligence to a finality. See further Prosecute.

Effected.

A condition in a policy of insurance that "every person insuring in this company must give notice.. of any other insurance effected in his behalf on said property," applies to all other insurance, whether taken out before or after the execution of the policy in question."