Make

1. To cause to exist; to form, fashion or produce; to do, perform or execute; as to make an issue, to make oath, to make a presentment.
2. To do in form pf law; to perform with due formalities; to execute in legal form; as to make answer, to make a return.
3. To execute as one's act or obligation; to prepare and sign; to sign, execute, and deliver; as to make a conveyance, to make a note.
4. To conclude, determine upon, agree to, or execute; as to make a contract.
5. To cause to happen by one's neglect or omission; as to make default.
6. To make acquisition of; to procure; to collect; as to make the money on an execution.
7. To have authority or influence; to support or sustain; as in the phrase, "This precedent makes for the plaintiff."

— Make an assignment. To transfer one's property to an assignee for the banefit of one's creditors.

— Make an award. To form and publish a judgment on the facts. Hoff v. Taylor, 5 N. J. Law, 833.

— Make a contract. To agree upon, and conclude or adopt, a contract. In case of a written contract, to reduce it to writing, execute it in due form, and deliver it as binding.

— Make default. To fail or be wanting in some legal duty; particularly, to omit the entering of an appearance when duly summoned in an action at law or other judicial proceeding, to neglect to obey the command of a subpoena, etc.

— Make one's faith. A Scotch phrase, equivalent to the old English phrase, "to make one's law."