Foregranted
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Granted in advance.
"[…] together with all interest in all debts and choses in action of every description whatsoever: To have and to hold the above and foregranted portion, interest or share in the said estate to the said John B. Latham, his heirs and assigns forever, […]"
- 2 Presumed.
"There always seems to me to be something concealed, a foregranted assumption, in the ecclesiastical mind, over which one stumbles.”"
Example
More examples"[…] together with all interest in all debts and choses in action of every description whatsoever: To have and to hold the above and foregranted portion, interest or share in the said estate to the said John B. Latham, his heirs and assigns forever, […]"
Etymology
From fore- + granted.
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