extend

to widen to new cases not before within the scope of the power.

To expand, enlarge, prolong, widen, carry out, further than the original limit; as, to extend the time ipr filing an answer, to extend a lease, term of office, charter, railroad track, etc. Flagler v. Hearst, 62 App. Div. 18, 70 N. Y. Supp. 956; Goulding v. Hammond, 54 Fed. 642, 4 C. C. A. 533; State v. Scott, 113 Mo. 559, 20 S. W. 1076; James v. McMillan, 55 Mich. 136, 20 N. W. 826; Wilson v. Rousseau, 4 How. 607, 11 In Ed. 1141; Orton v. Noonan. 27 Wis. 272; Moers v. Reading, 21 Pa. 201; Pcople v. New York & H. R. Co., 45 Barb. (N Y.) 73. To extend a street means to prolong and continue it in the direction in which it already points, but does not inclnde deflecting it from the course of the existing portion. Monroe v. Ouachita Parish, 47 La. Ann. 1061, 17 South. 498; In re Charlotte St., 23 Pa. 288; Seattle & M. Ry. Co. v. State, 7 Wash. 150, 34 Pac. 551, 22 L. R. A. 217, 38 Am. St. Rep. 866.

In English practice. To value the lands or tenements of a person bound by a statute or recognizance which has become forfeited, to their full extended value. 3 Bl. Comm. 420; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 131. To execute the writ of extent or extendi facias, (q. vt) 2 Tidd, Pr. 1043, 1044. In taxation. Extending a tax consists in adding to the assessment, roll the precise amount due from each person whose name appears thereon. "The subjects for taxation having been properly listed, and a basis for apportionment established, nothing will remain to fix a definite liability but to extend upon the list or roll the several proportionate amounts, as a charge against the several taxables." Cooley, Tax'n. (2d Ed.) 423.

Im English practices. To value the lands or tenements of a person bound bya statute or recognizance which has become forfeited, to their full extended value. 3 Bl. Comm. 420; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 131. To execute the writ of evtent or extendi faclas, (gq. 0.) 2 Tidd, Pr. 1048, 1044, In taxation. Extending a tax consists in adding to the assessment roll the precise amount due from each person whose name appears thereon, “The subjects for taxation having been properly listed, and a basis for apportionment established, nothing will remain to fix a definite liability but to extend upon the list or roll the several proportionate amounts, as a charge against the several taxae bles.” Cooley, Tax’n, (2d Ed.) 423.

To stretch or lengthen out; to continue, enlarge, expand. Compare Enlarge; Extent; Renew. To extend a charter is to give one which now exists greater or longer time in which to operate than that to which it was originally limited.* In its primary sense, when applied to a railroad track or other line, may import a continuation of the line without a break. But power to authorize a railway "to extend the location of its tracks" maybe held to include the location of an additional track, not connected with existing tracks except by those of another corporation. 3 For proper cause shown, a court will usually extend the time within which a thing was previously directed to be done; as. the taking of testimony.* Extension. Imports the continuance of an existing thing.5, Since the act of March 2, 1861, c. 88 (12 St. L. 249), patents are granted for the term of seventeen years, and further extension is forbidden, except as to de- In the construction of statutes a term of an inferior class will not be extended to a superior class. See Genebai., 6. Creditors extend, that is, increase the time of payment ot their claims, by agreeing to wait a certain time after the claims become due.

To appraise the yearly value of lands of a debtor forfeited upon statute or recognizance, so that it may be known how long the creditor is to retain possession to extinguish the debt.

[L. Lat. extenders; L. Fr. estsndre.l In English practice. To value the lands or tenements of a person bound by a statute or recognizance which has become forfeited, to their full extended value. 3 Bl. Com. 420. F. N. B. 131. To execute the writ of extent or extendi fadas^ (q. V.) 2 Tidd's Fr. 1043, 1044. This term seems to be considered synonymous with value, although the latter word is always used in connexion with it. So, in the oldest forms, both words occur; — extenders et appreciare, — extendi et appre" ciari, — exientio or extenta et appreciation Bract, fol. 72. Id. fol. 76 b. Beg. Jud. 2, 32 b. It would appear that its proper original meaning was to lay out land, or to ma Ke an inventory of it under certain heads, as preparatory to appraisement. This may be gathered from the use of the term in Bracton, as applied to the partition of estates. Sec Extenders, Extensores, Extenta.