Conclude
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
To end, to determine; to
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
To finish; determine; to estop; to prevent.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
To end, determiue; to estop, bonclusion to the country: the tender of issue to be tried by jury, at the end of a plea of traverse.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
[Lat. concludere, from con, together, and claudere, to shut.] To determine, finish, shut up, [or close.] Co. Litt, 37 a. To estop or bar a man to plead or claim any other thmg. Id, ibid. To bar or shut out; to shut up a party to a position which he has taken.* Thus, where a sheriflf has returned a capicLS that he has taken the defendant, he is concluded by such return, i. e. barred, shut out or estopped from questioning the return itself, or avoiding its legal effect in making him liable to the pfiinliflF.* Termes de la ley, Cowell.