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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

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.