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Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Tue Mar 9 21:02:43 EST 2004


> I was set up for a laugh by the heading of the non-capitalised text, 
> "WITNESSETH". It's not in either of my dictionaries, and 
> www.dictionary.com has no entries. Good fun, but it leads to some 
> interesting questions. If a legal document contains a made-up word 
> without definition can it have a legal meaning? 

Michael, "witnesseth" it's not a made-up word, it's old English for
"witnesses" (which is why it's not in dictionary.com). Goes along with
"thou", "thine", "doeth", "heareth, "seeth", etc.

Just FYI,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 




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