Legal Definition and Related Resources of Allow

permit , suffer , acquiesce, tolerate.

(Authorize), verb

• accredit
• acknowledge
• approve
• certify
• charter
• commission
• empower
• enable
• endorse
• enfranchise
• entitle
• give
• give authority
• give leave
• give permission
• grant permission
• invest
• legalize
• legitimatize
• icense
• permit
• privilege
• qualify
• sanction
• support
• sustain
• vouchsafe
• warrant
• Associated Concepts: allow to bail
• allowable debt
• allowable loss
• allowed by law
• allowed claim foreign phrases: Est quiddam perfectius in rebus licitis
• There is something more perfect in things permitted

(Endure), verb

• abide
• accede
• accept
• accord
• acquiesce
• afford
• agree
• approve
• assent
• be answerable
• be indulgent of
• bear
• brook
• carry on under
• concede
• consent
• countenance
• forbear
• permit
• submit to
• suffer
• suffer to occur
• sustain
• take patiently
• tolerate
• undergo
• withstand
• yield
• foreign phrases: Tout es que la loi ne defend pas est per mis
• Everything which the law does not forbid is permitted

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What does Allow mean in American Law?

The definition of Allow in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

A word of many meanings. In legally relevant contexts, it is most prominently used as roughly synonomous with: (a) the verb “permit,” as in “I will allow you to cross my property”; (b) “give a discount!’ or “accept this amount less,” as in “I will allow you 10% if you pay by June 1st”; and (c) (in the context of judicial action) “rule in favor of,” “grant,” as in, “motion allowed” and “all costs allowed to the plaintiff.”

Grammar

This term is a verb.

Etimology of Allow

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early 14c., allouen, “to commend, praise; approve of, be pleased with; appreciate the value of;” also, “take into account or give credit for,” also, in law and philosophy, “recognize, admit as valid” (a privilege, an excuse, a statement, etc.). From late 14c. as “sanction or permit; condone;” in business use from early 15c. The Middle English word is from Anglo-French alouer, Old French aloer, alloiier (13c.) “place, situate, arrange; allot, apportion, bestow, assign,” from Latin allocare “allocate” (see allocate). This word in Old French was confused and ultimately merged with aloer; alloer “to praise, commend, approve,” from Latin allaudare, adlaudare, compound of ad “to” (see ad-) + laudare “to praise” (see laud). Between the two primary significations there naturally arose a variety of uses blending them in the general idea of assign with approval, grant, concede a thing claimed or urged, admit a thing offered, permit, etc., etc. [OED]. From the first word came the sense preserved in allowance “money granted;” from the second came allowance “permission based on approval.” Meaning “assert, say,” 19c. U.S. colloquial, also was in English dialect and goes back to 1570s. Related: Allowed; allowing.