Leave
Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
To give or dispose of by will. "The word 'leave,' as applied to the subject matter, prima facie means a disposition by will." 10 East, 438.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
To die owning, as seised of; to dispose of by wilL
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
To give or dispose of by will. “The word ‘ leave,’ a3 applied to the subjectmatter, prima facie means a disposition by will.” 10 East, 438.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
1. To die seized of or owning.- 3. To dispose of by will: as, for a decedent to "leave" property to a certain person.' 3. To die with kindred surviving. " Leave " no issue, referring to realty, means an indefinite failure of issue; referring to personalty, a. definite failure of issue.* A posthumous child may be said to be a child whom an intestate "leaves" at his death.^ See Die, Without children. Leave of court. Permission given by a court to do something; as, to withdraw an appearance, or a paper filed. Compare Desertion; License; Start.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
0. The expressions to leave a state and to, remove from a state are not always synonymous; but in La. Code I'r. arts. 212, 214, authorizing holding a debtor to bail who is about to leave or remove from the state, they appear to be used as equivalents. Florance v. Camp, 5 La. 280. That an agreement " to leave " a partnership includes release of good-will, see Van Dyiie v. Jackson, 1 E. D. Smith, 419. When a testamentary gift is made to the children whom a designated person "may leave," the word leave may be construed as synonymous with the word have, where a different construction would defeat the gift as void, and it is evident, from the general tenor of the will, that such was the sense in which the testator used the word. Du Bois V. Ray, 85 N. Y. 162. And see King V. Savage, 121 Mass. 303. The verb leave is used in a variety of senses; including to forsake, to abandon, to depart from, to suffer to remain, not to carry away. In a statute providing that no slave shall be brought within the state to be disposed of, left, or sold within the state, "left" should be understood as meaning, that while a master may, from considerations of comity, bring his slave within the state, he must not suffer him to remain there. It is not confined to prohibiting the abandonment of slaves. Jackson v. Bullock, 12 Cmn. 38.