| a. | 1. | Hoped for, or to be hoped for. |
SPERATE. That of which there is hope.
2. In the accounts of an executor and the inventory of the personal
assets, he should distinguish between those assets which are sperate, and
those which are desperate; he will be prima facie responsible for the
former, and discharged for the latter. 1 Chit. Pr. 520; 2 Williams Ex. 644;
Toll. Ex. 248. See Desperate.
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