Waive
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Waive
To intentionally or voluntarily relinquish a known right or engage in conduct warranting an inference that a right has been surrendered.
For example, an individual is said to waive the right to bring a tort action when he or she renounces the remedy provided by law for such a wrong.
waive
v. to voluntarily give up a right, including not enforcing a term of a contract (such as insisting on payment on an exact date), or knowingly giving up a legal right such as a speedy trial, a jury trial or a hearing on extradition (the transfer to another state's jurisdiction of one accused of a crime in the other state). (See: waiver)
WAIVE. A term applied to a woman as outlaw is applied to a man. A man is an outlaw, a woman is a waive. T. L., Crabb's Tech. Dict. h.t.
TO WAIVE. To abandon or forsake a right.
2. To waive signifies also to abandon without right; as "if the felon
waives, that is, leaves any goods in his flight from those who either pursue
him, or are apprehended by him so to do, he forfeits them, whether they be
his own goods, or goods stolen by him." Bac. Ab. Forfeiture, B.