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Solvere

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

To pay; to release.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat. To pay; to comply with one's engagement; to do what one has undertaken to do; to release one's self from obligation, as by payment of a debt. Calvin.

— Solvere pœnas. To pay the penalty.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

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In the civil law. To pay; to do what one has undertaken to do; to loosen or disengage; to release one's self from obligation, as by payment of a debt