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Tight

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Anderson (1889)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

As colioquially applied to a note, bond, mortgage, lease, etc., this term signifies that the clauses providing the creditor's remedy in case of default (as, by foreclosure, execution, distress, etc.) are summary and stringent.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

Has no strictly technical signification. 1. In a claim for a patent to fit a vessel for sweating tobacco, means sufficiently tight to subserve the purpose of the invention; and an imitation less tight than the original is not thereby saved from the charge of infringement.* 3. Referring to an instrument of writing, see Sharp.