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A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889

A Dictionary of Law

Complete; also, to make complete: as, a perfect obligation, a perfect title; to perfect^ an appeal, bail, a copyright, a deed, an invention, qq. v.

Whence imperfect

If e^ccepted to, "bail "must be perfected; that is, the persons must justify themselves by each swearing that he is worth the Sum for which he is bail, after paying his debts.* A perfect external " obligation " confers the right of compulsion; a perfect " right," the light to compel those who refuse to fulfill the corresponding obligation,' q. V. A perfect " title " means a title which is 'good in law and equity. ^ A perfect "machine" may mean a "perfected" invention; not a machine perfectly constructed, but so constructed as to embody all the essential elements of the invention, in a form that would make them practical and operative, so as to accomplish the result.*