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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 create; to bring into existence. The term is used in various senses, thus, to "rai^e" a use is to create it; to "raise" an issue is to file such a plea as to make an issue. Facts are said to "raise" a presumption when they give rise thereto.