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A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889

A Dictionary of Law

1.

To transfer gratuitously, without an equivalent.

8 See Gift. 3.

To furnish or supply: as, to give liquor to a niinor.9 3. To find, furnish, supply: as, to give bail or security.

4.

To forbear to sue; to extend time: as, to give time to a debtor.

See Foebeaeance.

5.

To admit an apparent right in another: as, to give color.

See Coloe, 3. ■Dickson v. United States, 12S Mass. 313-16 (1878), cases; 52 N. Y. 530; 94 U. S. 316, 321. ' Pearson v. Pearson, 7 Johns. 28 (1810).

Delivery, when not essential, 81 Alb. Law J. 426-29, 445-48 (1885), s Lohman v. State, 81 Ind. 17 (1881), Niblack, J; Act of Congress 13 July, 1866: 14 St. L. 120. « 2 Bl. Com. 31S. • Jlst. O. F. gist, it lies: the pointwherein the matter lies. "First Nat. Bank oS Flora v. Burkett, 101 111.

394 (1882), Walker, J. See also Be Murphy, 109 id. 33 (1884). ' Gould, Plead. 162: Ch. IV, § 12. "See 1 Iowa, 282; 2N.Y.163; 33 Conn. 297; 2 Ala. 656; 23 Me. 219; 8 Cow. 38; 14 Wend. 38. » Commonwealth v. Davis, 12 Bush, 240 (1876); Halley 6.

To expound; to administer, apply: as, to give law.

7.

To surrender voluntarily to an oflacer of the law: as, to give one's self up.