Erect
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
i 1.
To lift up, build, construct: as, to erect — a building, a fixture. A house cannot be said to be erected until substantially completed^ before that it is a structure, not a "building erected " for a purpose." Removing a building is not erecting it; 3 nor is elevating and materially enlarging it.* But erecting or repairing may include pamting.s An erection is a construction.* A public grant conditioned on the " erection " of buildings is satisfied by the purchase of buildings already erected.'
See Structure.
3.
To found, form, institute, establish, create: as, to erect — a new county, a district for election or judicial purposes, a corpora^ tion.8