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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
This word is relative; it refers to something else, and it means that the thing to which it is attached, whatever that may be, lias some advantage over another thing of the same character, which, but for this advantage, would be like the others.
State v. R. Co., 16 S. C. 530.