waivern.

1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. §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.

1675 W. Sheppard 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.

1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent 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.

1812 Brougham Speech Orders in Council in 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.

1812 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 3) II. xviii. 650 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.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (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.

1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 849 That in this instance the express consent of the tenant amounted to a waiver of the statutory warning.

1846 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors IV. cviii. 127 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.

a1850 J. 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.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ix. §9. 685 It was necessary to bribe the two rival claimants to a waiver of their claims.

1908 Times 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.

1894 Pall 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.

1850 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict. , whence in later Dicts.

1907 Herrmann & 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.

1946 Encycl. 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.

1951 Britannica Bk. of Year 88/2 The Giants claimed pitcher Jim Hearn from the Cardinals on waivers in mid-season.

1972 J. Mosedale Football v. 75 He was put on waivers at the end of the season.

1978 N.Y. Times 29 Mar. b4/4 Oakland..put Dick Allen, first baseman, on waivers for purpose of giving him unconditional release.