Approve

To increase the profits upon a thing. Used of common or waste lands which were inclosed and devoted to husbandry. 3 Kent, Comm. 406; Old Nat. Brev. 79. While confessing crime one's self, to accuse another of the same crime. It is so called because the accuser must prove what he asserts. Staundf. P. C. 142; Cromp. Jus. Peace, 250. To vouch; to appropriate; to improve. Kelham.

To increase the profits upon a thing. Used of common or waste lands which were enclosed and devoted to husbandry; 3 Kent 406; Old Nat. Brev. 79. While confessing crime one's self, to accuse another of the same crime. It Is so called because the accuser must prove what he asserts; Staundf. PI. Cr. 142; Crompton, Jus. Peace 250. To vouch. To appropriate. To improve. Kelham. To commend; be satisfied with.

To take to one's proper and separate use. To improve; to enhance the value or profits of anything. To inclose and cultivate common or waste land. To approve common or waste land is to inclose and convert it to the purposes of husbandry, which the owner might always do, provided he left common sufficient for such as were entitled to it. St. Mert. c. 4; St. Westm. 2, c. 46; 2 Bl. Comm. 34; 3 Bl. Comm. 240; 2 Steph. Comm. 7; 3 Kent, Comm. 406.

In old criminal law. To accuse or prove; to accuse an accomplice by giving evidence against him.

In old English law. To take to one'fe own sepai-ate use, as by inclosing common or waste land; to inclose for the purpose of cultivation; to cultivate land after inclosing it; to make the best benefit or profit of it, by increasing the rent; to improve land; to accuse; to accuse an accomplice by giving evidence against him. V. Appropriare; Approvement.

1. To accept as good or sufficient for the purpose intended. Opposed, disapprove. See Approbare. Public sales are made on "approved, indorsed notes" when the purchaser gives his promissory note for the amount of a purchase. Indorsed by another and approved by the seller. The approval of the note ratifies the sale. See Sale, On approval; Ratification. 2. To deem of sufficient security: as, to approve a bond. "Approved" indorsed on a bond by the judge of a court does not necessarily import more than that the bond is deemed a sufficient security to be accepted. It does not include a direction that the bond is to stand in lieu of another bond and that the other is discharged. 3. To affirm as lawful and proper; to give judicial sanction to: as, to approve the report of an auditor, a master, or trustee. See Confirmation, 3. 4. To concur in the propriety or expediency, the legality or constitutionality of; to give executive sanction to: as, to approve an ordinance proposed by the councils of a city, to approve an act of an Assembly or of Congress. See Act, 3; Pass, 3; Veto. 5. To confess a felony or treason and accuse another as accomplice in order to obtain a pardon. Approvement. The confession made in such case, and the act of making it. Approver. He who makes such a confession. The accused is the "appellee." When a person indicted for treason or felony was arraigned he might confess the charge before plea pleaded and appeal or accuse some other as his accomplice, in order to obtain a pardon. This, allowed in capital cases only, was equivalent to an indictment, as the appellee was required to answer the charge. If proven guilty the judgment was against the appellee; and the approver was entitled to a pardon ex debito justitiae; but if the appellee was acquitted the judgment was that the approver be condemned. See Accomplice.

[L. Lat. appropriare, ap* pruare; L. Fr. fffprover, apprower, appruer^ In old English law. To take to one's own separate use, (ad proprium); as by enclosing land that was before common or waste. To enclose for the purpose of cultivation.* See injra. To cultivate land after enclosing it.* To make the best benefit or profit of it, by increasing the rent. Cowell. In modem phrase, to improve land. To approve common or waste land, is to enclose and convert it to the purposes of husbandry, which the owner might always do, provided he left common sufficient for such as were entitled to it. Stat. Merton, c. 4. Stat. Westm. 2, c. 46. 2 BL Com. 34. Sid. 240. 2 Steph. Com. 1. S Kent's Com. 406. See Appropriare, Approvement.