Raise

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.

To create. A use maybe raised; i. e. a use may be created. 1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 449. When a child has readied the age of twenty-one years, he is raised; Shoemaker v. Stobaugh, 59 Ind. 598.

To create. A use may be raised; i. e., a use may he created. Also to infer ; to create or bring to light by construction or interpretation.

— Raise a presumption. To give occasion or ground for a presumption; to be of such a character, or to be attended with such circumstances, as to justify an inference or presumption of law. Thus, a person's silence, in some instances, will "raise a presumption" of his consent to what is done.

— Raise an issue. To bring pleadings to an issue; to have the effect of producing an issue between the parties pleading in an action.

— Raise revenue. To levy a tax, as a means of collecting revenue; to bring together, collect, or levy revenue. The phrase does not imply an increase of revenue. Perry County v. Selma, etc., R. Co., 58 Ala. 557.

— Raising a promise. By this phrase is meant the act of the law in extracting from the facts and circumstances of a particular transaction a promise which was implicit therein, and postulating it as a ground of legal liability.

— Raising a nse. Creating, establishing, or calling into existence a use. Thus, if a man conveyed land to another in fee, without any consideration. equity would presume that he meant it to be to the use of himself, and would therefore rnise an implied use for his benefit. Brown.

— Raising an action, in Scotland. the institution of an action or suit.

— Raising money. To raise money is to realize money by subscription, loan, or otherwise. New York & R, Cement Co., v. Davis, i73 N. Y. 235, 66 N. E. 9; New London Literary Inst. v. Prescott, 40 N. H. 333.

— Raising portions. When a landed estate is settled on an eldest son, it is generally burdened with the payment of specific sums of money in favor of his brothers and sisters. A direction to this effect is calied a direction for "raising portions for younger children;" and, for this purpose, it is usual to demise or lease the estate to trustees for a term of years, upon trust to rnise the required portions by a sale or mortgage of the same. Mozley & Whitley.

To create, or constitute; to call into existence.

To create; to call or bring into existence; to infer as the result of construction. Raise a check, note, etc. To increase, by fraudulent means, the face amount or value of a check, promissory note, or other piece of commercial paper. See further Note, 2, Raised. Raise a ch Ud. A child is ' ' raised " when it attains twenty-one.^ Raise an issue. To produce an issue between parties pleading. The plea of not guilty is said to " raise the general issue." Raise portions. Settling realty upon an eldest son, and charging him with the payment of sums to his brothers and sisters. Raise a presumption. A fact or circumstance, admitted or proven, is said to "raise a presumption" that some other fact, also in issue but not durectly established, is or is not as alleged. 481 (1888), Matthews, J. Baise a promise. To infer a promise made, as a matter of justice: as when it is said that the law will or will not "raise a promise" or "an assumpsit" from a transaction. See Assumpsit. Raise revenue. To bring revenue together; to collect revenue; not necessarily to increase the amount. This is the meaning in the declaration that a bill '* to raise revenue " shall originate in the popular house.' See Revenue. Kaise a use. To call a use' into existence; to infer a use to exist, by construction. In this sense is the saying that equity will " raise a use " from a conveyance in fee -without considel'ation.

Has some peculiar uses, generally importing the idea of calling or bringing any thing into existence, or of inferring the existence of any thing Raising an action. In Scotland, is the institution of an action or suit. Raising money. To raise money is to realize a sum of money, either by subscription or by loan. Raising portions. When a landed estate is settled on an eldest son, it is generally burdened with the payment of specific sums of money in favor of his brothers and sisters. A direction to this effect is called a direction for ' ' raising portions for younger children; " and, for this purpose, it is usual to demise or lease the estate to trustees for a term of years, upon trust to raise the required poi-tions by a sale or mortgage of the same. Raising a promise. When it is said that the law "raises a promise," or " raises an assumpsit," upon any given transaction, it is meant that a promise, for breach of which an action may be brought, is legally involved in, or to be inferred from, the transaction in question. Raising a use. Creating, establishing, or calling a use into existence. When it is said that equity raises a use, the meaning is that the existence of a use is to be inferred by proper construction from the words of a written instrument. Thus, if a man conveyed land to another in fee, without any consideration, equity would presume that he meant it to the use of himself, and would therefore raise an implied use for his benefit. See Brown.