Noun | 1. | institute - an association organized to promote art or science or education |
Verb | 1. | institute - set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department" |
2. | institute - avance or set forth in court; "bring charges", "institute proceedings" Synonyms: bring |
INSTITUTE, Scotch law. The person first called in the tailzie; the rest, or
the heirs of tailzie, are called substitutes. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 3, 8, 8.
See Tailzie, Heir of; Substitutes.
2. In the civil law, an institute is one who is appointed heir by
testament, and is required to give the estate devised to another person, who
is called the substitute.
TO INSTITUTE. To name or to make an heir by testament. Dig. 28, 5, 65. To make an accusation; to commence an action.
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