Permit
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A license or warrant to do something not forbidden by law; as, to land goods imported into the United States, after the duties have been paid or secured to be paid.
Act Cong. March 2, 1799, § 49, cl. 2.
See form of such a permit. Gordon, Dig. Append.
II. 46.
PERMUTATIO (Lat. from perm Miare, to exchange). In the civil law. Exchange; barter.
Dig. 19. 4; Code, 4. 64.