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Definition of Sufferances
1. sufferance [n] - See also: sufferance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sufferances
Literary usage of Sufferances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ellis's British Tariff for by Robert Ellis (1832)
"That passengers' baggage, unaccompanied by the proprietor, be landed under Baggage
sufferances, in conformity with the Board's Minutes of the 17th May, ..."
2. Ellis's British Tariff for by Robert Ellis (1845)
"That passengers' baggage, accompanied by the proprietor, be brought to the
warehouse without sufferances, in charge of the proper officer, as at present. ..."
3. The British Tariff for ...: Contains Amended Tables of the Duties Payable on by Edwin Beedell (1848)
"That passengers' baggage, accompanied by the proprietor, be brought to the
warehouse without sufferances, in charge of the proper officer, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Vendor and Purchaser of Real Estate and Chattels by Thomas Cyprian Williams, John Frederick Iselin (1906)
"Conv., omissions and sufferances; Sug. 4th ed. P. 885. And see Sug. V. & P.
(/•) Thus covenants against the 599—604, 610—615; 2 Dart, V. acts of all persons ..."