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waiving |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Waive \Waive\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Waived}; p. pr & vb n. {Waiving}.] [OE. waiven, weiven, to set aside, remove, OF weyver, quesver, to waive, of Scand. origin; cf Icel. veifa to wave, to vibrate, akin to Skr. vip to tremble. Cf {Vibrate}, {Waif}.] [Written also {wave}.] 1. To relinquish; to give up claim to not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego. He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all --Chaucer. We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others --Barrow. 2. To throw away to cast off to reject; to desert. 3. (Law) a To throw away to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses. b (O. Eng. Law) To desert; to abandon. --Burrill. Note: The term was applied to a woman, in the same sense as outlaw to a man. A woman could not be outlawed, in the proper sense of the word because according to Bracton, she was never in law, that is in a frankpledge or decennary; but she might be waived, and held as abandoned. --Burrill.
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