Extend

To stretch or lengthen out; to continue, enlarge, expand. Compare Enlarge; Extent; Renew. To extend a charter is to give one which now exists greater or longer time in which to operate than that to which it was originally limited.* In its primary sense, when applied to a railroad track or other line, may import a continuation of the line without a break. But power to authorize a railway "to extend the location of its tracks" maybe held to include the location of an additional track, not connected with existing tracks except by those of another corporation. 3 For proper cause shown, a court will usually extend the time within which a thing was previously directed to be done; as. the taking of testimony.* Extension. Imports the continuance of an existing thing.5, Since the act of March 2, 1861, c. 88 (12 St. L. 249), patents are granted for the term of seventeen years, and further extension is forbidden, except as to de- In the construction of statutes a term of an inferior class will not be extended to a superior class.

See Genebai., 6.

Creditors extend, that is, increase the time of payment ot their claims, by agreeing to wait a certain time after the claims become due.