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Merger

the absorption of a thing of lesser importance by a greater, whereby the lesser ceases to exist, but the greater is

of a lesser included offense while remaining silent on the greater one NOTE: A greater offense and a lesser included offense

the absorption of a thing of lesser importance by a greater, whereby the lesser ceases to exist, but the greater is

payment of an amount not exceeding 40s., but for no greater amount; and in the case of bronze coins for the

means the giving up of a lesser estate to a greater; a release is the giving up of a greater to

in part'; i.e., if the portion be equal to or greater than the legacy, it operates as a total ademption of

Remittitur damnum. Where a jury gave greater damages than a plaintiff had declared for, the mistake might

260a), what avails in the lesser will avail in the greater; and what does not avail in the greater will not

interest, or the supersedure of one interest by another and greater interest in that out of which it is derived. It

Excommunication, an ecclesiastical interdict or censure, divided into the greater and the lesser; by the greater a person was excluded