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A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889

A Dictionary of Law

8 Is more positive than "allow " or " suffer: '' denotes a decided assent.*" Implies assefit given or leave granted.' May mean "sufl Eer."8 Includes knowledge of what is to be done, and intention that what is done is what is to be done.* One definition is "to allow by not prohibiting," as in an ordinance that " no person shall permit swine to go upon a sidewalk."'"

See Suffer.

Permissive.

Allowed; suffered: as, permissive waste, q. v.