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Coarctare

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [from con, together, and arctus, close.] To straiten, restrain, narrow, limit or confine. Bracton uses coarctari as the opposite of ampliari. Bract. fol.

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Coarctata; limited or restrained.