Refusal
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The act of declining to receive or to do something. In some cases, a neglect to perform a duty ■vnll be construed as a refusal; but, ordinarily, demand is essential to refusal.
6 Gray (Mass.) 224.
Refusal is sometimes used in the sense of "option;" thus, to "give a refusal" of property means to give an option of buying it. REFUTANTIA (Law Lat.) In old records. An acquittance or acknowledgment of renouncing all future claim.
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