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Dependent

A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889

A Dictionary of Law

1, adj.

Not to be performed until a connected thing is done by another. Opposed, independent, completely obligatory within itself: as, a dependent, or an independent, contract or covenant, qq. V. Compare Appendent.

2, n.

A person who is dependent for support upon another.

3 DEPONENT; DEPOSE.

See Deposition.

See Deposition.