Purging a tort
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
like the ratification of a wrongful act by a person who has power of himself to lawfully do the act. But, unlike ratification, the purging of the tort may take place even after commencement of the action.
1 Brod. & B. 282.
Defined under Purge in Black's Law Dictionary.