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take
With its inflections, has a popular, a quasi, or a wholly technical sense. 1. In the sense of being entitled to, procuring, acquiring, obtaining, receiving, accepting, reserving, is of frequent use. 2. To take up a bill or note is to pay the amount thereof, and receive the paper back; to retire the bill or note by paying it or substituting other paper for it. 3. To avail one's self of the provisions of a law; to take such action in court as will secure one's self the benefits of a particular law; as, to take the bankrupt or insolvent law. 4. To apply for and secure; to procure; as to "take out" a license, letters of administration or letters of testamentary, a policy of insurance, a writ of any kind. 5. The technical word in a precept ordering an arrest. 6. The technical word charging felonious appropriation in embezzlement; in larceny the words are "take and carry away". 7. A mere attempt to seduce is not a taking within a statute against abduction: there must be some positive act to get the person away. People v. Parshall. To appropriate to a public use, against the will of the owner: as, to take private property.
Source : William C. Anderson, A Dictionary of Law (1893)
Language : English