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surplusage
noun 3
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2ADJ.
all
SURPLUSAGE + NOUN
estate, thee
Definitions
noun
1
A surplus; a superabundance.
If then thee list my offred grace to vse, / Take what thou please of all this surplusage; / If thee list not, leaue haue thou to refuse […]
A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature.
2
Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and may be rejected.
3
A greater disbursement than the charge of the accountant amounts to.
1802–1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature one third-part of the surplusage of the estate of any person dying intetate, hall be distributed to his widow,and the reidue amongt his children by equal portions
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If then thee list my offred grace to vse, / Take what thou please of all this surplusage; / If thee list not, leaue haue thou to refuse […]
Wiktionary02
A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature.
Wiktionary03
1802–1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature one third-part of the surplusage of the estate of any person dying intetate, hall be distributed to
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