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Webster 1913 Edition

Merger

Mer′ger

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Noun.
1.
One who, or that which, merges.
2.
(Law)
An absorption of one estate, or one contract, in another, or of a minor offense in a greater.

Webster 1828 Edition

Merger

MERG'ER

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Noun.
[L. mergo, to merge.] In law, a merging or drowning of a less estate in a greater; as when a reversion in fee simple descends to or is purchased by a tenant of the same estate for years, the term for years is merged, lost, annihilated in the inheritance or fee simple estate.

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