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ACTIVE. The opposite, of passive. We say active debts, or debts due to us;
passive debts are those we owe.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.
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Causative counterparts of positionals in Laz are formed with the same roots by changing the conjugation class from a stative to a
nonstative paradigm.
Before turning to the
nonstative constructions, the features that distinguish the various stative constructions from one another are summarized in Table 2.
The described eventuality is
nonstative and brought about intentionally in both cases.
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