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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

To increase the profits upon a thing. Used of common or waste lands which were inclosed and devoted to husbandry.

3 Kent, Comm. 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. P. C. 142; Cromp. Jus. Peace, 250.

To vouch; to appropriate; to improve.

Kelham.