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Rasure

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

is the scratching or scraping a writing, so as to prevent some part of it from being read. The word writing here is intended to include printing. Vide Addition; Erasure, and Interlineation.

Also 8 Vin. Ab. 169; 13 Vin. Ab. 37; 2 Bac. Ab. 649; 4 Com. Dig. 294; 7 Id. 202.