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▪ I. waiver|ˈweɪvə(r)|
Also 8 waivure, 9 waver.
[a. AF. weyver (Britton, 13th c.), subst. use of the inf. weyver waive v.1: see -er4.]
1. a. Law. The action or an act of waiving; dispensing with a requirement, an express or implicit declining to avail oneself of a known right or to assert a claim.
1628Coke On Litt. §660. 348 b, It appeareth, that the right of the Estate taile discending to him either within age, or of full age, shall worke a Remitter in him, for that the waiuer of the state should haue bin to his losse and preiudice. 1675Sheppard Grand Abridgm. iv. 192 This word Waiver is sometimes applyed to an Estate, or something that is made or conveyed to a man, and so it signifieth nothing else but the Refusal to accept of the thing so made and conveyed. And sometimes it is applyed to a plea, and then signifieth a Refusal to stand to a former Plea pleaded, and the pleading a new. 1741T. Robinson Gavelkind vi. 116 But the Court held, that the Parol ought not to demur, for that the Infant is out of Court, and by the Waivure the Original is determined against her. 1812Brougham Sp. Orders in Council Wks. 1873 X. 50 That a conduct like this would..throw a single obstacle in the way of exerting on the morrow the very same rights, of which next Saturday's Gazette should contain the waiver. 1817Selwyn Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 677 Where rent is usually paid at a banker's, if the banker, without any special authority, receives rent accruing after expiration of notice to quit, it will not operate as a waver. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) III. 335 The taking such subsequent estate was his own folly, and shall be looked upon as a waiver of his prior right. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 849 That in this instance the express consent of the tenant amounted to a waiver of the statutory warning. 1846Ld. Campbell Chancellors cviii. IV. 127 note, Hallam is of opinion that the first two Georges, by their frequent visits to Hanover, made a bad return for the waiver of the condition on which they were invited to the throne. a1850J. C. Calhoun Wks. (1874) IV. 480 It is well understood that a compromise involves not a surrender, but simply a waiver of the right or power. 1874Green Short Hist. ix. §9. 685 It was necessary to bribe the two rival claimants to a waiver of their claims. 1908Times 27 Aug. 11/5 As to the point as to waiver, it had long been decided that every trifling breach of a covenant was not to be taken as a waiver.
b. Comb.: waiver clause, a clause in the prospectus of a joint-stock company, by which the subscribers are made to contract themselves out of the provision of the Companies Act requiring that the prospectus shall contain certain particulars respecting the contracts made with the promoters.
1894Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Dec. 5/3. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 16 Oct. 10/2 It is becoming quite refreshing to find a prospectus without the objectionable waiver clause.
¶c. The alleged use of the word as synonymous with waivery appears to be unauthenticated.
1850Ogilvie, whence in later Dicts.
d. spec. The formal relinquishment by a club in a professional sports (esp. baseball) league of its right to buy the contract of a player from another club in the same league, before he is offered to a club in another league. Freq. on waivers. N. Amer.
1907Herrmann & Pulliam in 4th Ann. Rep. Nat. Commission (1908) 99 The Club never had any intention to let the player go;..they only asked for waivers as a bluff. 1946Encycl. Brit. III. 167/1 There is a fixed price in each league that must be paid by the club obtaining a player by this waiver method. The player is said to be sent by club A to club B on waivers. 1951Britannica Bk. of Year 88/2 The Giants claimed pitcher Jim Hearn from the Cardinals on waivers in mid-season. 1972J. Mosedale Football v. 75 He was put on waivers at the end of the season. 1978N.Y. Times 29 Mar. b4/4 Oakland..put Dick Allen, first baseman, on waivers for purpose of giving him unconditional release.
2. In non-technical use: An act of waiving or dismissing from consideration. rare.
1883E. C. Stedman in Century Mag. XXVI. 940 There is something exasperating to serious minds in his placid waiver of things grievous or distasteful.
▪ II. waiver
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