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Definition of Empowers
1. empower [v] - See also: empower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Empowers
Literary usage of Empowers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"For instance, the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act empowers every company to
which that Act applies, to make by-laws for the purpose of regulating the ..."
2. An Introduction to the History of the Revolt of the American Colonies: Being by George Chalmers (1845)
"The King empowers Nicholson to continue the Government.— Assumption of Authority
by Leisler. — Proclamation of William anil Mary at Albany. ..."
3. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"... however, a statute expressly empowers a city to refund its debt evidenced by
bonds, and does not undertake to limit such right or power, ..."
4. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"There's a clause in the bill against popery, which empowers the lord chancellor
for the time being to allow such of the papists children as are or shal be ..."
5. Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways of Great by Joseph Priestley (1831)
"... which empowers the company to raise a further sum of £50000 to carry on their
work, bv a creation of one thousand half shares of £50 each. ..."
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