Definition of Incurs

1. Verb. (third-person singular of incur) ¹

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Definition of Incurs

1. incur [v] - See also: incur

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incurs

incurableness
incurables
incurably
incuriosities
incuriosity
incurious
incuriously
incuriousness
incuriousnesses
incurrable
incurred
incurrence
incurrences
incurrent
incurring
incurs (current term)
incursion
incursions
incursive
incursively
incurtain
incurtained
incurtaining
incurtains
incurvate
incurvated
incurvates
incurvating
incurvation
incurvations

Literary usage of Incurs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law of Succession, Testamentary and Intestate by William Searle Holdsworth, Charles William Vickers (1899)
"The subject falls, therefore, into the following divisions:— (i) The powers in the due exercise of which the representative incurs no personal liability; ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Agency: Including Not Only a Discussion of the by Floyd Russell Mechem (1914)
"Authorized agent contracting in name of principal incurs no personal liability.—As has often been pointed out, it is ordinarily the duty as well as the ..."

3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"CHAPTER XL IN WHICH HARRY PAYS OFF AN OLD DEBT, AND incurs SOME NEW ONES OUR Tunbridge friends were now weary of the Wells, and eager to take their ..."

4. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1887)
"to await further orders from the consignor before carriage, the carrier incurs, at the utmost, the liability of a warehouseman.1 Duer (NY), 335; Rogers v. ..."

5. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till by John Campbell Campbell (1849)
"VIII. An 1616. Coke's dispute with Lord Ellesmere about injunctions. Coke incurs the King's high displeasure in the ease of Com- ..."

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