Suffer

Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Abbott (1879)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

To suffer an act to be done, by a person who can prevent it, is to permit or consent to it; to approve of it, and not

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

To permit; to authorize.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

To approve; to consent to; to permit and not to hinder. Selleck v. Selleck, 19 Conn. 505; Gregory v. U. S., 17 Blatchf. 330, Fed. Cas. No. 5,803. See Permit.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

To suffer an act to be done, by a person who can prevent it, is to permit or censent to it; to approve of it, and not to hinder it. It implies a willingness of the mind. See In re Rome Planing Mill (C. C.) 96 Fed. 815; Wlison v. Nelson, 183 U. S. 191, 22 Sup. Ct. 74, 46 In Ed. 147; Selleck v. Selleck, 19 Conn. 505; Gregory v. U. S., 10 Fed. Cas. 1197; In re Thomas (D. Ct) 103 Fed. 274.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

To permit; knowing, not to hinder. Willingness is implied.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

As used in an ordinance against suffering certain domestic animals to run at large in a town, means knowingly, and willingly or carelessly, to permit. Collinsville v. Scanland, 58 Ill. 221. The word suffer, as used in section 39 of the bankrupt act of 1867, is different from the word procure. To suffer implies a passive condition. It is like "to allow," "to permit," and does not import a demonstrative, active course, like the word procure. It is an apt word to apply to the case of pressure and powerful motives brought to bear upon a party. Under the influence of this pressure, and the operation of these motives, he suffers a thing to be done; that is, allows or permits it. Campbell v. Traders' Nat. Bank, 2 Biss. 423. Suffering a recovery. A recovery was a mode of conveyance effected by the party wishing to convey the land permitting a fictitious action to be brought against him by the party to whom the land was to be conveyed, and allowing a judgment to pass against him for the land in question. The vendor, or conveying party, in thus assisting or permitting the demandant so to recover a judgment against him was thence technically said to "suffer a recovery." See Fine; Recovery.