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v. to gain or obtain possession, including the receipt of a legacy from an estate, getting title to real property, or stealing an object.

TAKE. This is a technical expression which signifies to be entitled to; as, a devisee will take under the will. To take also signifies to seize, as to take and carry away.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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As a 'nontower' airport, De Jesus said airport personnel had no way of stopping pilots from taking off because they could not communicate with them.

No-fly zone near Pangasinan capitol sought

Quoting eyewitnesses the report said that the jet caught fire shortly after taking off and came down on the runway.

Pilot martyred as fighter jet crashes in Peshawar

Onlookers said it looked like one plane aborted its landing so it wouldn't hit the jet which was taking off

Dramatic moment two passenger planes are involved in 'scary near miss' at Birmingham Airport after flying just 500ft apart; Plane spotters captured footage of the two jets taking off very close to each other but the airport said the planes were performing a 'controlled manoeuvre'

From the supermarket where he works near the airport, Jose Luis, 49, said he could see the plane taking off before it banked and plunged to the ground.

More than 100 killed in Cuba airliner crash

-Var of fighter jets while taking off and landing on the base

Air activity continues at y-ncirlik Air Base

US drones had previously executed a single lethal air strike against an ISIS targets in Syria but this was the first time manned US fighter jets had carried out raids after taking off from Turkey's strategically located Incirlik base.

U.S. begins manned airstrikes from Turkey against ISIS

Although it looks very pretty in May and early June, taking over from the spring flowers, we need to be ruthless about taking off all the flowered stems before they can seed themselves.

PARSLEY SAUCE: All through this [...]; DIARY

New York (AirGuide Features - Inside Air Travel) Fri, Apr 25, 2014 - The Federal Aviation Administration is looking into whether two planes were too close to each other as one was taking off and the other landing at Newark Liberty International Airport Thursday afternoon, an agency spokeswoman said tonight.

US FAA looking at whether plane landing at Newark Airport flew too close to departing jet

Newcastle is almost three times busier, with a plane landing and taking off every 15 minutes.

Cardiff Airport trailing its rivals

2 with 1,216 planes landing and taking off, carrying 138,000 passengers.

Turkey's Istanbul's airports have broken their all-time air traffic record

Entrepreneur Mark Weir, 45, died after taking off in an Aerospatiale helicopter at just after 7pm on March 8 last year from the Honister Slate Mine attraction that he owned in the Lake District.

Crash pilot 'not qualified'

Summary: Tunisian airlines have suspended flights to Libya's capital Tripoli after armed men swarmed the runway and stopped a plane from taking off, a company official said yesterday.