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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.
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