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Depart

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In Pleading. To forsake or abandon the ground assumed in a former pleading, and assume a new one. See "Departure." In Old English Law. To divide or separate; to part.

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In Maritime Law

To leave a port; to be out of a port. To depart imports more than to sail, or set sail. A warranty in a policy that a vessel shall depart on or before a particular day is a warranty not only that she shall sail, but that she shall be out of the port on or before that day. 3 Maule & S. 461; 3 Kent, Comm. 307. note. "To depart" does not mean merely to break