DEFINE

A Law Dictionary · 1910 · p. 8
To explain or state the exact meaning of words and phrases; to settle, make clear, establish boundaries. U. S. v. K Smith, 5 Wheat. 160, 5 L: Ed. 57; Walters v. Richardson, 93 Ky. 374, 20 S. W. 279; Miller v. Improvement Co., 99 Va. 747, 40 S. E. 27, 86 Am. St. Rep. 924: Gould v. Hutchins, 10 Me. 145., "An examination of onr Se ion Laws will L show that acts have frequently been pa ed, the constitutionality of which has never been questioned, where the powers and duties conferred could not be considered as merely explaining or making more clear those previously conferred or attempted to be, although the word M 'define' was used in the title. In legislation it [s. 351]
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