Legal Definition and Related Resources of Permit

Meaning of Permit

A licence; an instrument of licence or warrant issued by a person in authority empowering the grantee to do some act not forbidden by law, but not allowable without such authority. See Shady Acres Nursing Home, Inc. v Canary, 39 Ohio App.2d 47, 316 N.E.2d 481; Hodge v Muscatine county , 196 U.S. 276, 25 S.Ct. 237, 49 L.Ed. 477. To suffer , allow , consent , give leave or licence, to acquiesce.

Permit Alternative Definition

A license or warrant to do something not forbidden by law ; as, to land goods imported into the United States, after the duties have been paid or secured to be paid. Act Cong. March 2, 1799, § 49, cl. 2. See form of such a permit. Gordon, Dig. Append. II. 46.

Synonyms of Permit

verb

accord one’s approval
agree to
allow
approve
approve of
assent
authorize
award assent
be in favor of
be indulgent of
confer a privilege
consent
empower
enable
entitle
facilitate
give clearance
give consent
give leave
give opportunity for
give permission
give power
grant permission
have no objection
let
license
make possible
remove the obstacles
sanction
suffer
tolerate
warrant
yield assent

noun

affirmation
approbation
approval
authority
authorization
carte blanche
certificate
charter
confirmation’ document granting permission
fiat
grant
leave
legalization
license
pass
passport
patent
permission
privilege
sanction
ticket of leave
visa
voucher
warrant
Associated Concepts: license

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Allow, Authority, Bare Licensee, Cross-examination, , Lease, , Planned Unit Development, Recoupment, Stop Order, Suffer.

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Legal Usage of Allow (to), Permit (to), Enable (to) in English

An European Commission document offers the following explanation about the misused of Allow (to), Permit (to), Enable (to):When used to mean ‘make it possible to’, ‘allow to’ cannot be used without a grammatical object, so we cannot say: ‘At present, the statistics available do not allow to take account of all these situations’: ‘allow’ needs to be followed by a noun or pronoun such as ‘us’ (the statistics do not allow us to take account of all these situations). EUR-Lex contains around 600 cases where this construction is used wrongly. The same applies to ‘permit to’ and ‘enable to’.

Example

‘When the interoperability constituent is integrated into a Control-Command and Signalling On-board or Track-side Subsystem, if the missing functions, interfaces, or performances do not allow to assess whether the subsystem fully complies with the requirements of this TSI, only an Intermediate Statement of Verification may be issued18.’

Alternatives

‘make it possible to’, ‘allow us to’, ‘enable us to’, ‘allow (an assessment) of’

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