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701 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROPRIETRESS.1 (Noah Webster)
PROPRIETRESS, n. A female who has the exclusive legal right to a thing.
702 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROSECUTE.5 (Noah Webster)
2. To seek to obtain by legal process; as, to prosecute a right in a court of law.
703 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROSECUTE.6 (Noah Webster)
… a legal tribunal; as, to prosecute a man for trespass or for a riot. It is applied to civil suits for damages, as well as to criminal suits, but not to suits for debt …
704 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROSECUTE.7 (Noah Webster)
Prosecute differs from persecute, as in law it is applied to legal proceedings only, whereas persecute implies cruelty, injustice or oppression.
705 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROSECUTION.3 (Noah Webster)
… a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment; as prosecutions of the crown or of the state by the attorney or solicitor general. Prosecutions may …
706 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROSECUTOR.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The person who institutes and carries on a criminal suit in a legal tribunal, or one who exhibits criminal charges against an offender. The attorney general is the prosecutor for the king or state.
707 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PURCHASE.1 (Noah Webster)
… . The legal use of the word in obtaining writs, shows best its true origin; to purchase a writ, is to sue out a writ, that is, to seek it out; for sue, seek, and L. sequor, are …
708 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PURCHASE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. In its primary and legal sense, to gain, obtain or acquire by any means, except by descent or hereditary right.
709 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. QUALIFICATION.4 (Noah Webster)
2. Legal power or requisite; as the qualifications of electors.
710 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. QUALIFY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To make capable of any employment or privilege; to furnish with legal power or capacity; as, in England, to qualify a man to kill game.
711 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. QUALIFYING.1 (Noah Webster)
QUALIFYING, ppr. Furnishing with the necessary qualities, properties or accomplishments for a place, station or business; furnishing with legal power; abating; tempering; modifying; restraining.
712 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REGULARITY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Agreeableness to a rule or to established order; as the regularity of legal proceedings.
713 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RELEASE.5 (Noah Webster)
4. To quit; to let go, as a legal claim; as, to release a debt or forfeiture. Deuteronomy 15:1-3 .
714 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REPENTANCE.3 (Noah Webster)
… called legal repentance, as being excited by the terrors of legal penalties, and it may exist without an amendment of life.
715 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REPRESENTATIVE.3 (Noah Webster)
They own the legal sacrifices, though representative, to be proper and real.
716 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RESOLVE.28 (Noah Webster)
2. Legal or official determination; legislative act concerning a private person or corporation, or concerning some private business. Public acts of a legislature …
717 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RESPIT.5 (Noah Webster)
3. Delay; forbearance; prolongation of time for the payment of a debt beyond the legal time.
718 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RETURNABLE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In law, that is legally to be returned, delivered, given or rendered; as a writ or precept returnable at a certain day; a verdict returnable to the court; an attachment returnable to the king’s bench.
719 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REVOKE.2 (Noah Webster)
… be legally revoked without the consent of the corporation. A devise may be revoked by the devisor, a use by the grantor, and a will be the testator.
720 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RIGHT.39 (Noah Webster)
… claim; legal title; ownership; the legal power of exclusive possession and enjoyment. In hereditary monarchies, a right to the throne vests in the heir on the …