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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

In old English law

To take to one'fe own sepai-ate use, as by inclosing common or waste land; to inclose for the purpose of cultivation; to cultivate land after inclosing it; to make the best benefit or profit of it, by increasing the rent; to improve land; to accuse; to accuse an accomplice by giving evidence against him. V. Appropriare; Approvement.