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Toleration

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

The allowance of religious opinions and modes of worship in a state which are contrary to or different from, those of the established church or belief. Webster.

Toleration act. The statute 1 W. & M. St. 1, c. 18, for exempting Protestant dissenters from the penalties of certnin laws is so called. Brown.