APPROVEMENT
approvement
Noun
- Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.
- approval; approbation
- A confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplices and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon.
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